| 词条 | Mikko Kolehmainen |
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Mikko Yrjö Ilmari Kolehmainen (born 18 August 1964 in Mikkeli) is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won the gold medal in the K-1 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kolehmainen's victory was Finland's only gold medal at those games. By now established as Finland's strongest kayak sprinter, he concentrated in the K-1 500 m discipline. Although a respected competitor at international regattas he never really threatened the top paddlers for the major prizes. At the 1991 World Championships in Paris he finished a creditable seventh. It was therefore a major shock when, at the Barcelona Olympics in 1992, he won the K-1 500 m gold medal. His victory over reigning champion Zsolt Gyulay of Hungary gave Finland their only gold medal of an otherwise disappointing Games. A year later he showed that his Barcelona performance was no fluke by winning the world championship K-1 500 m title in Copenhagen. At his farewell Olympics, in Atlanta in 1996 he finished in seventh place, and carried the flag at the opening ceremony. References
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13 : 1964 births|Living people|People from Mikkeli|Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics|Canoeists at the 1988 Summer Olympics|Canoeists at the 1992 Summer Olympics|Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics|Finnish male canoeists|Olympic canoeists of Finland|Olympic gold medalists for Finland|Olympic medalists in canoeing|ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak|Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics |
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