🚣Pertti Karppinen

#6GOAT Rankings

FinlandCountry

1976–1988Career

Why they rank here

Three consecutive Olympic golds in the men's single, at Montreal 1976, Moscow 1980 and Los Angeles 1984. He raced on into 1988. The single is the only Olympic boat in which the result cannot be shared, and doing it three times in a row had been done before, by Ivanov, and has not become ordinary since. Karppinen's case is that narrowness: no eight to lean on, no partner to make the middle thousand easier, three Games as the first boat.

Career profile

Olympic golds

3

Olympic medals

3

Games raced

4

Career years

12

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vs Steve Redgravevs Elisabeta Lipăvs Georgeta Damianvs Matthew Pinsentvs Kathrin Boronvs Vyacheslav Ivanovvs Hamish Bondvs Ekaterina Karstenvs Mahe Drysdalevs Olaf Tuftevs Emma Twigg

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1 Steve Redgrave2 Elisabeta Lipă3 Georgeta Damian4 Matthew Pinsent5 Kathrin Boron7 Vyacheslav Ivanov8 Hamish Bond9 Ekaterina Karsten

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