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Jan Boklöv

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Jan Mauritz Boklöv (born 14 April 1966) is a Swedish former ski jumper who won the 1988–89 World Cup season. He also dominated the Swedish national championships during the late 1980s and early 1990s. He is best known for popularising the now-ubiquitous V-style in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Kurt Elimä was one of Boklöv's trainers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Boklöv is the 107th most popular skier (down from 96th in 2019), the 892nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 875th in 2019) and the 13th most popular Swedish Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Jan Boklöv ranks 107 out of 817. Before him are Heidi Biebl, Sven Utterström, Zeno Colò, Paavo Lonkila, Gunde Svan, and Jens Weißflog. After him are Piero Gros, Hans-Georg Aschenbach, Tapio Mäkelä, Erling Evensen, Mikaela Shiffrin, and Chiharu Igaya.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1966, Jan Boklöv ranks 258. Before him are Aminatou Haidar, Vivian Wu, Trine Hattestad, Brian Shaw, Riyad Farid Hijab, and Viatcheslav Ekimov. After him are Eva LaRue, Attilio Lombardo, Jorge González, Ken Sugimori, Omar Souleyman, and Nuno Bettencourt.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Jan Boklöv ranks 892 out of 1,879. Before him are Per Bertilsson (1892), Gunnel Vallquist (1918), Egon Jönsson (1921), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Erik Pettersson (1944), and Staffan Tapper (1948). After him are Hjördis Nordin (1932), Lennart Klingström (1916), Ingvar Gärd (1921), Ferdinand Boberg (1860), Ola Rapace (1971), and Gunnar Larsson (1951).

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Among SKIERS In Sweden

Among skiers born in Sweden, Jan Boklöv ranks 13. Before him are Elis Wiklund (1909), Nils Karlsson (1917), Stig Sollander (1926), Nils Östensson (1918), Sven Utterström (1901), and Gunde Svan (1962). After him are Pernilla Wiberg (1970), Barbro Martinsson (1935), Assar Rönnlund (1935), Jan Halvarsson (1942), Torgny Mogren (1963), and Benny Kohlberg (1954).

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