What is Veikko Kankkonen?
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2020}} [[File:Veikko Kankkonen 1964b.jpg|right|200px]] '''Veikko Kankkonen''' (born 5 January 1940) is a retired [[Finland|Finnish]] [[ski jumper]]. He competed at the [[1960 Winter Olympics|1960]], [[1964 Winter Olympics|1964]] and at the [[1968 Winter Olympics]]. He won two medals in 1964 with a gold in the individual [[normal hill]] and a silver in the individual [[large hill]] event.<ref name=sr /><ref name=sr2 /> He was born in [[Sotkamo]], Finland. Kankkonen won the [[Holmenkollen medal]] (shared with [[Eero Mäntyranta]], [[Georg Thoma]], and [[Halvor Næs]]). ==References== {{reflist|refs= <ref name=sr>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/veikko-kankkonen-1.html |title=Veikko Kankkonen |access-date=2019-08-30 |archive-date=2020-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417054339/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ka/veikko-kankkonen-1.html |url-status=dead }}</ref> <ref name=sr2>{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/ |title=Finland |access-date=2019-08-30 |archive-date=2020-04-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040833/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/ |url-status=dead }}</ref> }} ==Other websites== * {{IOC profile}} * {{Olympic Channel|veikko-kankkonen}} * {{Olympedia}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070224190249/http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk Holmenkollen medalists] – click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file {{in lang|no}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20070224190249/http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk Holmenkollen winners since 1892] – click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file {{in lang|no}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Kankkonen, Veikko}} [[Category:1940 births]] [[Category:Living people]] [[Category:Olympic gold medalists for Finland]] [[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Finland]] [[Category:Finnish skiers]] {{sports-bio-stub}}