Matti Ensio Nykänen (pronunciation ) (17 July 1963 – 4 February 2019) 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 (four gold), nine World Championship medals (five gold), and 22 Finnish Championship medals (14 gold). 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 at that Olympiad.
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Matti Ensio Nykänen 17 July 1963 Jyväskylä, Finland
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Died |
4 January 2019 (aged 55) Lappeenranta, Finland
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Zodiac | Cancer |
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