Kalevi Hämäläinen

Kalevi Hämäläinen
Medal record

Men's cross-country skiing
Competitor for Finland
Olympic Games
	1960 Squaw Valley	50 km
World Championships
	1958 Lahti	30 km
	1958 Lahti	4 x 10 km
	1962 Zakopane	50 km

Kalevi Hämäläinen (13 December 1932 – 10 January 2005) was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He won the 50 km event at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. He was born in Juva.

Hämäläinen also won three medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships with a gold in the 30 km (1958), and bronzes in the 4 x 10 km (1958) and the 50 km (1962).

References

Kalevi Haemaelaeinen at the International Ski Federation

Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross-country

World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing

1926: Matti Raivio (FIN)
1954: Vladimir Kuzin (URS)
1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen (FIN)
1962: Eero Mäntyranta (FIN)
1966: Eero Mäntyranta (FIN)
1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS)
1974: Thomas Magnuson (SWE)
1978: Sergey Savelyev (URS)
1982: Thomas Eriksson (SWE)
1985: Gunde Svan (SWE)
1987: Thomas Wassberg (SWE)
1989: Vladimir Smirnov (URS)
1991: Gunde Svan (SWE)
1993: Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)
1995: Vladimir Smirnov (KAZ)
1997: Alexey Prokurorov (RUS)
1999: Mika Myllylä (FIN)
2001: Andrus Veerpalu (EST)
2003: Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)

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