Kurt Elimä was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 ski jumper who competed international from 1963 to 1968. He finished seventh in the individual normal hill event at the 1964 Winter Olympics

1964 Winter Olympics

The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games, were a winter multi-sport event which was celebrated in Innsbruck, Austria, from January 29 to February 9, 1964...

 in Innsbruck

Innsbruck

- Main sights :- Buildings :*Golden Roof*Kaiserliche Hofburg *Hofkirche with the cenotaph of Maximilian I, Holy Roman Emperor*Altes Landhaus...

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

Austria

Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...

 in 1966.

"Kurre" won five Swedish Championships, participated in two Olympics and one World Cup. He was also third in the classic Garmisch-Partenkirchen and won the Swiss ski weeks.

Olympians:
1968 Grenoble, 1964 Innsbruck

Swedish Champion:
1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969

In 1969 he received Stora Grabbars Märke

Stora Grabbars Märke

Stora Grabbars Märke is an honorary award within Swedish sports, created in 1928 by Bo Ekelund. The recipients are called a 'Stor Grabb' and has to gather a certain amount of points according to different rules depending on the sport in question...

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Kurt's winning jump in the Swedish Championships 1969 in Filipstad and Hastabergsbacke

Biography

Kurt grew up in Korpilombolo, he has 12 siblings and was the second oldest.

Kurt is from a real ski jumper family with several brothers who have jumped Lennart Elimä (won Swedish Champions 1978) is one of those who also competed at a high level, and in the 60's theres father Lorenz Elimä built a jump on a hill in Malmberget

Kurt started with ski jumping club in Koskullskulle

Koskullskulle

Koskullskulle is a locality situated in Gällivare Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 899 inhabitants in 2005.It was founded in 1898 when iron ore was discovered. The village got its name from Georg Adolf Koskull who was governor of Norrbotten County 1816-1821.The iron ore mine situated...

 AIF, he also competed for the second tusk in his career as IFK Kiruna and Malmbergets AIF.

In Kaif (Koskullskulle AIF), he has also been active after he stopped competing, he has trained ski jumper Jan Boklöv

Jan Boklöv

Jan Mauritz Boklöv is one of the most successful Swedish ski jumpers of all time, probably only rivaled by Sven Selånger. He won the World Cup in 1988/89, and dominated the Swedish championships in the late 1980s. He is however most known for inventing the V-style, which has been the standard...

 who is the founder of V style that today is the basic style of ski jumping

Kurt currently lives in Malmberget

Malmberget

Malmberget is a locality and mining town situated in Gällivare Municipality, Norrbotten County, Sweden with 6,017 inhabitants in 2005. It is situated 5 kilometres from the municipal seat Gällivare....

, and has put in as coach of Kaif.

External links

• http://olympicairport.drift.senselogic.se/5.aad0b10833d63e5c800018696.html
• 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)