Leo Linkovesi
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Full name | Leo Ensio Linkovesi | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1947-04-08)8 April 1947 Helsinki, Finland | ||||||||||||||
Died | 7 November 2006(2006-11-07) (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
Discipline | Time | Date | Location[1] |
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500 m | 0.38,0 | January 8, 1972 | Davos |
Sprint combination | 156.500 | January 8, 1972 | Davos |
References
- ^ "Leo Linkovesi". SpeedSkatingStats.com. Retrieved 29 August 2012.
External links
- Leo Linkovesi at the International Skating Union
- Leo Linkovesi at Olympics.com
- Leo Linkovesi at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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- 1970: Valery Muratov
- 1971: Erhard Keller
- 1972: Leo Linkovesi
- 1973: Valery Muratov
- 1974: Per Bjørang
- 1975: Aleksandr Safronov
- 1976: Johan Granath
- 1977–80: Eric Heiden
- 1981: Frode Rønning
- 1982: Sergey Khlebnikov
- 1983: Akira Kuroiwa
- 1984: Gaétan Boucher
- 1985–86: Igor Zhelezovski
- 1987: Akira Kuroiwa
- 1988: Dan Jansen
- 1989: Igor Zhelezovski
- 1990: Bae Ki-tae
- 1991–93: Igor Zhelezovski
- 1994: Dan Jansen
- 1995: Kim Yoon-man
- 1996–97: Sergey Klevchenya
- 1998: Jan Bos
- 1999–2000: Jeremy Wotherspoon
- 2001: Mike Ireland
- 2002–03: Jeremy Wotherspoon
- 2004–05: Erben Wennemars
- 2006: Joey Cheek
- 2007–08: Lee Kyou-hyuk
- 2009: Shani Davis
- 2010–11: Lee Kyou-hyuk
- 2012: Stefan Groothuis
- 2013–14: Michel Mulder
- 2015–16: Pavel Kulizhnikov
- 2017: Kai Verbij
- 2018: Håvard Holmefjord Lorentzen
- 2019: Pavel Kulizhnikov
- 2020: Tatsuya Shinhama
- 2022: Thomas Krol
- 2024: Ning Zhongyan
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