Miran Tepeš (born 25 April 1961) is a Slovenian former ski jumper and current ski jumping official who competed for Yugoslavia and Slovenia from 1979 to 1992. He won a silver medal in the team large hill competition at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, in the normal hill individual competition he finished fourth and tenth in large hill competition.
| Medal record | ||
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| Men's ski jumping | ||
Representing  Yugoslavia
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1988 Calgary | Team large hill |
His best finish at the FIS Ski Jumping World Cup was second a total of seven times between 1985 and 1990.
After retiring, Tepeš started working as a FIS competition official. His son Jurij Tepeš and daughter Anja Tepeš are also ski jumpers.
Miran Tepeš is also a passionate sailor, who has circumnavigated the world three times with his own sailing boat "Skokica". His first trip around the world was between the years 2006 and 2008, his second trip (including Cape Horn) started in 2010 and was finished in autumn 2012. Third trip (including Iceland, Greenland, Tasmania, South Africa and Amazonia) started in 2014 and was finished in 2018. In 2023 he sailed through the Northwest Passage through the Arctic from Greenland to Pacific.
External links
edit- Miran Tepeš at the International Ski and Snowboard Federation. SLO nationality
- Miran Tepeš at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
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