Väinö Huhtala
Finnish cross-country skier
Väinö Huhtala Full name Väinö Veikko Sakari Huhtala Born (1935-12-24 ) 24 December 1935Revonlahti , Finland Died 18 June 2016(2016-06-18) (aged 80)Jämsä , Finland [ 1] Height 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) Ski club Revonlahden Reipas Jämsänkosken Ilves
Väinö Veikko Sakari Huhtala (24 December 1935 – 18 June 2016) was a Finnish former cross-country skier who competed in the early 1960s. He won two medals in the 4 × 10 km relay at the Winter Olympics with a gold in 1960 and a silver in 1964.[ 2] Huhtala also finished fourth in the 15 km event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck .
He also won a silver medal in the 1962 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in the 4 × 10 km relay.
Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS) .[ 3]
Olympic Games
2 medals – (1 gold, 1 silver)
World Championships
Year
Age
15 km
30 km
50 km
4 × 10 km relay
1962
26
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Silver
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1936 : Sulo Nurmela , Klaes Karppinen , Matti Lähde , Kalle Jalkanen (FIN )
1948 : Nils Östensson , Nils Täpp , Gunnar Eriksson , Martin Lundström (SWE )
1952 : Heikki Hasu , Paavo Lonkila , Urpo Korhonen , Tapio Mäkelä (FIN )
1956 : Fyodor Terentyev , Pavel Kolchin , Nikolay Anikin , Vladimir Kuzin (URS )
1960 : Toimi Alatalo , Eero Mäntyranta , Väinö Huhtala , Veikko Hakulinen (FIN )
1964 : Karl-Åke Asph , Sixten Jernberg , Janne Stefansson , Assar Rönnlund (SWE )
1968 : Odd Martinsen , Pål Tyldum , Harald Grønningen , Ole Ellefsæter (NOR )
1972 : Vladimir Voronkov , Yuri Skobov , Fyodor Simashev , Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS )
1976 : Matti Pitkänen , Juha Mieto , Pertti Teurajärvi , Arto Koivisto (FIN )
1980 : Vasily Rochev , Nikolay Bazhukov , Yevgeny Belyayev , Nikolay Zimyatov (URS )
1984 : Thomas Wassberg , Benny Kohlberg , Jan Ottosson , Gunde Svan (SWE )
1988 : Jan Ottosson , Thomas Wassberg , Gunde Svan , Torgny Mogren (SWE )
1992 : Terje Langli , Vegard Ulvang , Kristen Skjeldal , Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR )
1994 : Maurilio De Zolt , Marco Albarello , Giorgio Vanzetta , Silvio Fauner (ITA )
1998 : Sture Sivertsen , Erling Jevne , Bjørn Dæhlie , Thomas Alsgaard (NOR )
2002 : Anders Aukland , Frode Estil , Kristen Skjeldal , Thomas Alsgaard (NOR )
2006 : Fulvio Valbusa , Giorgio Di Centa , Pietro Piller Cottrer , Cristian Zorzi (ITA )
2010 : Daniel Rickardsson , Johan Olsson , Anders Södergren , Marcus Hellner (SWE )
2014 : Lars Nelson , Daniel Rickardsson , Johan Olsson , Marcus Hellner (SWE )
2018 : Didrik Tønseth , Martin Johnsrud Sundby , Simen Hegstad Krüger , Johannes Høsflot Klæbo (NOR )
2022 : Aleksey Chervotkin , Alexander Bolshunov , Denis Spitsov , Sergey Ustiugov (ROC )