Antti Tyrväinen

For the ice hockey player, see Antti Tyrväinen (ice hockey).

Antti Tyrväinen

Personal information

Full name

Antti Eerkki Tyrväinen

Born

5 November 1933
Ylöjärvi, Finland

Died

13 October 2013 (aged 79)
Tampere, Finland

Height

1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)^[1]

Professional information

Sport

Biathlon

Olympic Games

Teams

2 (1960, 1964)

Medals

1 (0 gold)

World Championships

Teams

6 (1959, 1961, 1962, 1963, 1965, 1966)

Medals

6 (1 gold)

Medal record

Men's biathlon
Representing Finland
Olympic Games
	1960 Squaw Valley	20 km individual
World Championships
	1961 Umeå	Team event
	1962 Hämeenlinna	20 km individual
	1962 Hämeenlinna	Team event
	1963 Seefeld	20 km individual
	1963 Seefeld	Team event
	1965 Elverum	20 km individual

Antti Eerkki Tyrväinen (5 November 1933 – 13 October 2013)^[1]^[2] was a Finnish biathlete and Olympic medalist. He received a silver medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley,^[1] and silver medals in the World Championships in 1962 and 1963 together with a bronze medal in 1965. He was born in Ylöjärvi.

Biathlon results

All results are sourced from the International Biathlon Union.^[3]

Olympic Games

1 medal (1 silver)

Event	Individual
1960 Squaw Valley	Silver
1964 Innsbruck	13th

World Championships

6 medals (1 gold, 4 silver, 1 bronze)

Event	Individual	Team (time)	Relay
1959 Courmayeur	17th	4th	N/A
1961 Umeå	5th	Gold	N/A
1962 Hämeenlinna	Silver	Silver	N/A
1963 Seefeld	Silver	Silver	N/A
1965 Elverum	Bronze	5th	N/A
1966 Garmisch-Partenkirchen	17th	N/A	5th

*During Olympic seasons competitions are only held for those events not included in the Olympic program.

**The team (time) event was removed in 1965, whilst the relay was added in 1966.

References

1 2 3 "Antti Tyrväinen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 23 July 2015.
↑ "Antti Tyrväinen kuollut". Keskisuomalainen (in Finnish). 14 October 2013. p. 18.
↑ "Search results". IBU Datacenter. International Biathlon Union. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 23 July 2015.

External links

Antti Tyrväinen at Sports Reference

World champions in men's biathlon – Team event

4 × 20 km (time)	1958: Sweden (Adolf Wiklund, Olle Gunneriusson, Sture Ohlin, Sven Nilsson)

3 × 20 km (time)	1959: Soviet Union (Vladimir Melanin, Dmitri Sokolov, Valentin Pzhenitsyn) 1961: Finland (Kalevi Huuskonen, Paavo Repo, Antti Tyrväinen) 1962: Soviet Union (Vladimir Melanin, Valentin Pzhenitsyn, Nikolay Puzanov) 1963: Soviet Union (Vladimir Melanin, Nikolay Mezharyakov, Valentin Pzhenitsyn) 1965: Norway (Olav Jordet, Ola Wærhaug, Ivar Nordkild)

4 × 20 km	1989: Soviet Union (Juri Kashkarov, Sergei Bulygin, Alexandr Popov, Sergei Tchepikov) 1990: East Germany (Raik Dittrich, Mark Kirchner, Birk Anders, Frank Luck) 1991: Italy (Hubert Leitgeb, Gottlieb Taschler, Simon Demetz, Wilfried Pallhuber) 1992: CIS (Eugeni Redkine, Alexander Tropnikov, Anatoly Zhdanovich, Alexandr Popov) 1993: Germany (Fritz Fischer, Frank Luck, Steffen Hoos, Sven Fischer)

4 × 10 km	1994: Italy (Pieralberto Carrara, Hubert Leitgeb, Andreas Zingerle, Wilfried Pallhuber) 1995: Norway (Frode Andresen, Dag Bjørndalen, Halvard Hanevold, Jon Åge Tyldum) 1996: Belarus (Petr Ivashko, Oleg Ryzhenkov, Alexandr Popov, Vadim Sashurin) 1997: Belarus (Oleg Ryzhenkov, Petr Ivashko, Alexandr Popov, Vadim Sashurin) 1998: Norway (Egil Gjelland, Halvard Hanevold, Sylfest Glimsdal, Ole Einar Bjørndalen)

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