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Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen (born 18 August 1964 in Mikkeli) is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the K-1 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kolehmainen's victory was Finland's only gold medal at those games.

Mikko Kolehmainen

Medal record
Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1992 Barcelona	K-1 500 m
World Championships
	1993 Copenhagen	K-1 500 m

By now established as Finland's strongest kayak sprinter, he concentrated in the K-1 500 m discipline. Although a respected competitor at international regattas he never really threatened the top paddlers for the major prizes. At the 1991 World Championships in Paris he finished a creditable seventh.

It was therefore a major shock when, at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, he won the K-1 500 m gold medal. His victory over reigning champion Zsolt Gyulay of Hungary gave Finland their only gold medal of an otherwise disappointing Games.

A year later he showed that his Barcelona performance was no fluke by winning the world championship K-1 500 m title in Copenhagen. At his farewell Olympics, in Atlanta in 1996 he finished in seventh place, and carried the flag at the opening ceremony.

References

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)

External links

• Mikko Kolehmainen at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)

На других языках

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- [en] Mikko Kolehmainen

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[fr] Mikko Kolehmainen

Mikko Kolehmainen (né le 18 août 1964 à Mikkeli) est un kayakiste finlandais. Aux Jeux olympiques d'été de 1992 disputés à Barcelone, il est médaillé d'or au K-1 500 mètres[1]. L'année suivante, il devient champion du monde sur la même distance.

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[it] Mikko Kolehmainen

Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen (Mikkeli, 18 agosto 1964) è un ex canoista finlandese. È il fratello di Olli, anche lui ex canoista.

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[ru] Колехмайнен, Микко

Микко Юрьё Ильмари Колехмайнен (фин. Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen; 18 августа 1964, Миккели) — финский гребец-байдарочник, выступал за сборную Финляндии в середине 1980-х — конце 1990-х годов. Чемпион летних Олимпийских игр в Барселоне, чемпион мира, победитель многих регат национального и международного значения.

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