Country Finland Died December 3, 2015 Sport Speed skating Height 1.60 m | Name Eevi Huttunen Weight 56 kg Role Olympic athlete | |
Born 23 August 1922 ( 1922-08-23 ) Karttula, Finland Olympic medals Speed Skating at the 1960 Winter Olympics - Women's 3000m | ||
Eevi Huttunen, married name Pirinen (23 August 1922 – 3 December 2015), was a speed skater from Finland. She was born in Karttula.
Being for a decade almost the only female skater able to compete against the Soviet ladies on the longer distances, Huutunen made a comeback specially for the 1960 Winter Olympics (the first where women speed skaters were allowed to compete), where she managed to win the bronze on the 3000 m. She competed in eleven World Allround Championships which was till 1960 the only international speed skating event for women, from 1948 to 1960 (every year except 1956 and 1958), winning the 1951 event and being on many occasions the best non-soviet skater, certainly in the longer distances.
Medals
An overview of medals won by Huttunen at important championships she participated in, listing the years in which she won each:
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