List of Famous people with last name Nykanen

Matti Nykänen

Matti Ensio Nykänen

First Name Matti

Born on July 17, 1963

Died on February 4, 2019 (aged 55)

Born in Central Finland

Height 177 cm | 5'10

Matti Ensio Nykänen was a Finnish ski jumper who competed from 1981 to 1991. Widely considered to be the greatest male ski jumper of all time, he won five Winter Olympic medals, nine World Championship medals, and 22 Finnish Championship medals. Most notably, he won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most medaled athlete that winter.

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