Martti Lappalainen

Martti Lappalainen Eemil ( born April 11, 1902 in Liperi; † October 6, 1941 in Mäntysova ) was a Finnish cross-country skiers.

Success (selection)

Lappalainen was at the Olympic Winter Games in 1924 as a soldier in the Finnish army a member of the Olympic team of the military patrol race and won together with August Eskelinen, Heikki Hirvonen and Väinö Bremer in this discipline the silver medal. The military patrol run was subsequently declared 1926 demonstration competition.

In 1926 he was at the Nordic World Ski Championships in the 30-km cross-country skiing sixth. In 1928, he won the 50 -km cross-country skiing at Holmenkollen and was at this competition, the second non- Norwegian gold medalist after local success Anton Collins in 1922. At the Olympic Winter Games in 1928, he was cross-country skiing on the 18 - km race in the men seventh and ninth on the 50 -km distance. In 1932 he was at the Olympic Winter Games in Lake Placid fourth in the 18 -km cross-country skiing and also took part in the 50 km race, but this had to stop. In the Nordic World Ski Championships 1934, he won in the 4 x 10 km relay team along with Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen and Veli Saarinen gold and the 18 - km run the bronze medal.