Kurt Sigvard Elimä (24 August 1939 – 28 March 2024)Kurt Elimä
was a Swedish

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fin ...

who competed internationally from 1963 to 1968. He finished seventh in the individual normal hill event at the

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. Elimä's best career finish international was fourth in an individual normal hill event in

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in 1966. "Kurre" won five Swedish Championships, participated in two Olympics (1964 and 1968) and one world cup. He finished third in the classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen and won the Swiss ski weeks. He was a Swedish champion in 1963–1965, 1967 and 1969 and received

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in 1969.

Biography

Kurt grew up in Korpilombolo, he has 12 siblings and was the second oldest. Kurt was from a family of ski jumpers, with several brothers who have jumped including Lennart Elimä (who won Swedish Champions 1978) is one of those who also competed at a high level, and in the 1960s their father Lorenz Elimä built a jump on a hill in Malmberget. Kurt started with a ski jumping club in

Koskullskulle Koskullskulle is a locality situated in Gällivare Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 874 inhabitants in 2010. It was founded in 1898 when iron ore was discovered. The village got its name from Georg Adolf Koskull who was governor of N ...

AIF; he also competed for the second tusk in his career as IFK Kiruna and

Malmbergets AIF Malmbergets Almänna Idrottsförening, MAIF, is a multi-sport club from Malmberget, Norrbotten, Sweden. The club has been most successful in team handball and Nordic skiing. History The club was founded on 22 February 1904. Initially, the club arra ...

. In Kaif (Koskullskulle AIF), he was also active after he stopped competing, he trained ski jumper

Jan Boklöv Jan Mauritz Boklöv (born 14 April 1966) is a Swedish former ski jumper who won the 1988–89 World Cup season. He also dominated the Swedish national championships during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is best known for popularising the now ...

who is the founder of V style that today is the basic style of ski jumping. Kurt lived in

Malmberget Malmberget ("The Ore Mountain", Finnish language, Finnish and Meänkieli dialects, Meänkieli: ''Malmivaara'') is a urban areas of Sweden, locality and mining town situated in Gällivare Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden. It had 5,590 inhabit ...

, and put in as coach of Kaif.

References

External links

* * * * * https://web.archive.org/web/20110823161758/http://olympicairport.drift.senselogic.se/5.aad0b10833d63e5c800018696.html * https://web.archive.org/web/20100522044516/http://www.skidor.com/sv/SvenskaSkidforbundet/Historikochstatistik/Svenskamastare/Backenordiskkombination/ * http://www.nsd.se/arkiv/2006/02/02/Sport/3467161/Backhoppningen-%E4r-d%F6d.aspx (Swedish text) 1939 births 2024 deaths People from Pajala Municipality Ski jumpers at the 1964 Winter Olympics Ski jumpers at the 1968 Winter Olympics Swedish male ski jumpers Olympic ski jumpers for Sweden Skiers from Norrbotten County 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-skijumping-bio-stub