Leo Linkovesi
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| Full name | Leo Ensio Linkovesi | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 8 April 1947 Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 7 November 2006 (aged 59) Kerava, Finland | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||
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Leo Ensio Linkovesi (8 April 1947 – 7 November 2006) was a Finnish speedskater who specialised on the shorter distances, the 500 m and the 1000 m.
Linkovesi was born in Helsinki, Finland. He won the first ever official World Sprint Speed Skating Championships in 1972. In January of that year in Davos, he also set world records on the 500 m with 38.0 and in the sprint combination with 156.500 (38.7 – 1:19.3 / 38.0 – 1:20.3). Remarkably, three other skaters (Hasse Börjes, Erhard Keller, and Lasse Efskind) equalled the 38.0 world record time before it was lowered by Yevgeny Kulikov to 37.99 in 1975. At the 1972 Winter Olympics, Linkovesi placed sixth on the 500 m. Linkovesi died in Kerava, Finland at the age of 59.
World records
[edit | edit source]| Discipline | Time | Date | Location[1] |
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| 500 m | 38.0 | January 8, 1972 | Switzerland Davos |
| Sprint combination | 156.500 | January 8, 1972 | Switzerland Davos |
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References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Leo Linkovesi at the International Skating Union (archived)
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- 1947 births
- 2006 deaths
- Finnish male speed skaters
- Olympic speed skaters for Finland
- Speed skaters at the 1972 Winter Olympics
- World record setters in speed skating
- World Sprint Speed Skating Championships medalists
- Speed skaters from Helsinki
- 20th-century Finnish sportsmen
- Finnish speed skating biography stubs