HELSINKI (AP) — Eero Mantyranta, a three-time Olympic cross-country skiing champion from Finland, died Monday. He was 76.
Finnish Skiing Association spokeswoman Anna-Mari Vuollet says Mantyranta died in a hospital in the city Oulu in western Finland on Monday.
She says Mantyranta had been ill for a long time, but couldn’t specify the exact cause of death.
Mantyranta helped Finland win the men’s 10-kilometer relay at the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics and won the 15-kilomter and 30-kilometer individual races at the 1964 Innsbruck Games.