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Tapio Mäkelä

1926 - 2016

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Tapio Valfrid Mäkelä (12 October 1926 – 12 May 2016) was a Finnish cross-country skier who competed in the 1950s. He won the 4 × 10 km relay gold and the 18 km silver at the 1952 Winter Olympics in Oslo. Mäkelä also won a gold in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Tapio Mäkelä is the 110th most popular skier (down from 99th in 2019), the 344th most popular biography from Finland (down from 326th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Finnish Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 110 out of 817. Before him are Paavo Lonkila, Gunde Svan, Jens Weißflog, Jan Boklöv, Piero Gros, and Hans-Georg Aschenbach. After him are Erling Evensen, Mikaela Shiffrin, Chiharu Igaya, Heini Hemmi, Klaes Karppinen, and Pernilla Wiberg.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1926, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 400. Before him are Miguel León-Portilla, Klaus Schütz, Wolfgang Seidel, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Frank O'Hara, and Giovanni Invernizzi. After him are Géza Kádas, Rafael Azcona, Alison Lurie, Robert Bly, Georgi Yumatov, and Ken Olsen. Among people deceased in 2016, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 408. Before him are Halfdan T. Mahler, Heinz Ulzheimer, Laurent Pokou, Whitney Smith, Herschell Gordon Lewis, and Burt Kwouk. After him are Kiichirō Furukawa, Piers Sellers, Henning Christophersen, Siegbert Horn, Wim van der Voort, and Gideon Toury.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 344 out of 751. Before him are Arvo Ylppö (1887), Kirka (1950), Eeles Landström (1932), Paavo Lonkila (1923), Yrjö Hietanen (1927), and Okko Kamu (1946). After him are Lauri Ylönen (1979), Darude (1975), Viljo Heino (1914), Pentti Linnosvuo (1933), Paavo Väyrynen (1946), and Sirkka Polkunen (1927).

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Among SKIERS In Finland

Among skiers born in Finland, Tapio Mäkelä ranks 12. Before him are Jouko Törmänen (1954), Aulis Kallakorpi (1929), Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi (1955), Toini Pöysti (1933), Toini Gustafsson (1938), and Paavo Lonkila (1923). After him are Klaes Karppinen (1907), Harri Kirvesniemi (1958), Matti Lähde (1911), Niilo Halonen (1940), Toni Nieminen (1975), and Rauno Miettinen (1949).

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