Matti Ensio Nyk�nen is a Finnish former ski jumper who won five Olympic medals, nine World Championships medals and 22 Finnish Championships medals. Most notably, Nyk�nen won three gold medals at the 1988 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Yvonne van Gennip of the Netherlands, the most successful athlete there. Nyk�nen is the only ski jumper in history to have won all five of the sport's major competitions; gold medal in the Olympic Games, World Championships and Ski flying World Championships, and finished first in the overall World Cup and Four Hills Tournament. Since the 1990s, his status as a celebrity has mainly been fueled, not by his sporting achievements, but instead by his colourful personal relationships, his career as a singer, and various incidents often related to heavy use of alcohol and violent behavior. He was sentenced to jail for 26 months following a stabbing incident in 2004, and again for 16 months after aggravated assault on his wife in 2009. 

July 17th, 1963 in Jyväskylä as Matti Ensio Nykänen  /  Died:   Feb 4th, 2019