Finland at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Finland at the
1980 Winter Olympics
Finland at the; 1980 Winter Olympics
IOC code	FIN
NOC	Finnish Olympic Committee
Website	sport.fi/olympiakomitea (in Finnish and Swedish)
in Lake Placid
Competitors	52 (44 men, 8 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Heikki Ikola (biathlon)
Medals ; Ranked 7th	Gold1Silver5Bronze3Total9
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Finland competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Jouko Törmänen	Ski jumping	Men's large hill (K120 individual 90m)
Silver	Juha Mieto	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Silver	Juha Mieto	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Silver	Hilkka Riihivuori	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Silver	Hilkka Riihivuori	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Jouko Karjalainen	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Harri Kirvesniemi Juha Mieto Matti Pitkänen Pertti Teurajärvi	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze	Helena Takalo	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Bronze	Jari Puikkonen	Ski jumping	Men's large hill (K120 individual 90m)

Biathlon

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Keijo Kuntola	5	37:15.28	35
	Arto Sutinen	3	36:01.06	24
	Erkki Antila	2	34:32.97	12

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time ²	Rank
20 km	Raimo Seppänen	1'13:15.67	6	1'19:15.67	32
	Heikki Ikola	1'10:02.16	5	1'15:02.16	18
	Erkki Antila	1'07:32.32	4	1'11:32.32	5

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Misses ¹	Time	Rank
Keijo Kuntola Erkki Antila Kari Saarela Raimo Seppänen	6	1'38:50.84	7

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Cross-country skiing

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
15 km	Pertti Teurajärvi	43:59.08	20
	Kari Härkönen	43:50.31	19
	Harri Kirvesniemi	43:02.01	8
	Juha Mieto	41:57.64
30 km	Jorma Aalto	1'32:48.10	26
	Harri Kirvesniemi	1'31:35.13	18
	Juha Mieto	1'29:45.08	7
	Matti Pitkänen	1'29:35.03	6
50 km	Pertti Teurajärvi	2'36:44.08	18
	Matti Pitkänen	2'34:09.04	11
	Asko Autio	2'32:25.57	9
	Juha Mieto	2'30:30.52

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Harri Kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto	2'00:00.18

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
5 km	Marja Auroma	16:18.44	25
	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	15:58.27	19
	Helena Takalo	15:32.12	8
	Hilkka Riihivuori	15:11.96
10 km	Ulla Maaskola	33:22.19	32
	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	32:22.88	18
	Helena Takalo	30:45.25
	Hilkka Riihivuori	30:35.05

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
Athletes	Time	Rank
Marja Auroma Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Helena Takalo Hilkka Riihivuori	1'04:41.28	5

Figure skating

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Susan Broman	14	17	17	157.54	152	17
Kristiina Wegelius	7	11	12	172.04	87	10

Ice hockey

First Round - Red Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to consolation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
Finland	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
Canada	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Poland	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
Netherlands	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
Japan	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980
20:00

Poland

5 – 4
(1–0, 4–3, 0–1)

Finland

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:
Haley

Zabawa (Jobczyk, Małysiak) (PP) - 14:48	1 – 0
	1 – 1	21:16 - Levo (Litma, Hakulinen) (PP)
Zabawa (Jobczyk, Małysiak) - 27:13	2 – 1
Kokoszka (Chowaniec) - 29:52	3 – 1
	3 – 2	30:27 - Porvari (Leinonen, Suoraniemi)
Jobczyk (Małysiak, Zabawa) - 33:08	4 – 2
Kokoszka (Dziubiński, Marcinczak) - 34:40	5 – 2
	5 – 3	36:57 - Leinonen (Kiimalainen, Porvari)
	5 – 4	46:05 - Leppänen (Levo, Peltonen)

10 min

Penalties

4 min

25

Shots

49

14 February 1980
20:00

Japan

3 – 6
(0–2, 2–2, 1–2)

Finland

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:
Haley

	0 – 1	02:02 - Hakulinen (Peltonen) (PP)
	0 – 2	05:43 - Leinonen (Kiimalainen)
	0 – 3	22:47 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo)
	0 – 4	33:36 - Leinonen (Leinonen, Porvari)
S. Misawa (Hori, Hanzawa) - 37:57	1 – 4
Honma (Hori, S. Misawa) (PP) - 39:59	2 – 4
	2 – 5	43:34 - Kiimalainen
Azuma (Matsuda) - 47:38	3 – 5
	3 – 6	51:11 - Leppänen (Levo, Peltonen)

6 min

Penalties

8 min

29

Shots

51

16 February 1980
20:30

Canada

3 – 4
(1–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Finland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Lindgren

	0 – 1	04:03 - Peltonen (Suoraniemi)
MacLean (Berry, O'Malley) - 14:22	1 – 1
	1 – 2	19:51 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo)
	1 – 3	37:07 - Koskilahti
G. Anderson (Nill, Davidson) - 46:47	2 – 3
	2 – 4	56:55 - Suoraniemi (Leppänen) (SH)
Primeau (Hindmarch, Devaney) - 57:09	3 – 4

16 min

Penalties

10 min

33

Shots

26

18 February 1980
17:00

Finland

2 – 4
(1–0, 0–1, 1–3)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Haley

Porvari (Suoraniemi) - 17:44	1 – 0
	1 – 1	36:01 - Fetisov (Makarov, A. Golikov)
Porvari (SH) - 42:38	2 – 1
	2 – 2	54:59 - Krutov (Lebedev)
	2 – 3	56:07 - Maltsev (Krutov, Lebedev)
	2 – 4	56:18 - Mikhailov (Kasatonov)

14 min

Penalties

8 min

13

Shots

48

20 February 1980
20:00

Finland

10 – 3
(2–1, 2–1, 6–1)

Netherlands

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

Referee:
Kompalla

Porvari - 10:41	1 – 0
	1 – 1	18:13 - van Wieren (de Heer)
Leppänen (Litma, Eloranta) - 18:28	2 – 1
	2 – 2	30:25 - Klooster (deGraauw)
Villa (Koskinen, Saarinen) - 33:07	3 – 2
Porvari (Leinonen) - 34:12	4 – 2
Kurri (Litma, Leppänen) (PP2) - 42:35	5 – 2
Peltonen (Leppänen, Kurri) (PP) - 43:44	6 – 2
Koskinen (Eloranta) (PP) - 44:34	7 – 2
Hakulinen (Peltonen, Leppänen) - 46:10	8 – 2
Kurri (Eloranta, Hakulinen) (PP2) - 48:16	9 – 2
Haapalainen (Leinonen, Kiimalainen) - 51:03	10 – 2
	10 – 3	53:04 - Peternousek (de Heer, van Wieren)

4 min

Penalties

22 min

42

Shots

16

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland 4th	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

22 February 1980
20:42

Finland

3 – 3
(1–0, 1–1, 1–2)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:
Neagles

Leinonen (Porvari, Kiimalainen) - 03:00	1 – 0
Porvari (Eloranta) - 27:06	2 – 0
	2 – 1	30:25 - Weinstock
	2 – 2	45:24 - Jonsson (Åhlberg, Holmgren)
	2 – 3	46:14 - Waltin (Norberg)
Leinonen (Porvari) - 47:59	3 – 3

6 min

Penalties

6 min

25

Shots

30

24 February 1980
11:00

United States

4 – 2
(0–1, 1–1, 3–0)

Finland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

Referee:

Vladimir Šubrt

	0 – 1	09:20 - Porvari (Leinonen, Litma)
Christoff - 24:39	1 – 1
	1 – 2	26:30 - Leinonen (Haapalainen, Kiimalainen) (PP)
Verchota (Christian) - 42:25	2 – 2
McClanahan (Johnson, Christian) - 46:05	3 – 2
Johnson (Christoff) (SH) - 56:25	4 – 2

10 min

Penalties

4 min

29

Shots

23

Carried over group match:

Finland 2–4 USSR

Leading scorers

Rank	Player	GP	G	A	Pts
5th	Jukka Porvari	7	7	4	11

Nordic combined

Events:

normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
Athlete	Event	Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Rauno Miettinen	Individual	67.0	72.5	171.9	24	50:26.9	195.640	18	367.540	23
Jorma Etelälahti		72.0	79.5	192.6	14	50:02.4	199.315	15	391.915	13
Jouko Karjalainen		79.0	81.0	209.5	7	47:44.5	220.000	1	429.500
Jukka Kuvaja		68.5	68.5	155.0	31	48:32.2	212.845	7	367.845	22

Ski jumping

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
Athlete	Event	Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Kari Ylianttila	Normal hill	76.0	105.8	72.0	97.4	203.2	32
Jari Puikkonen		81.0	115.8	80.0	111.7	227.5	16
Jouko Törmänen		83.0	119.0	85.5	124.5	243.5	8
Pentti Kokkonen		86.0	126.8	83.5	120.8	247.6	5
Kari Ylianttila	Large hill	102.0	111.0	106.0	118.1	229.1	13
Pentti Kokkonen		105.0	115.2	105.0	115.7	230.9	12
Jari Puikkonen		110.5	126.4	108.5	122.1	248.5
Jouko Törmänen		114.5	133.5	117.0	137.5	271.0

Speed skating

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Esa Puolakka	39.76	25
	Pertti Niittylä	39.54	22
	Jukka Salmela	39.32	18
1000 m	Esa Puolakka	1:23.54	35
	Jukka Salmela	1:21.78	30
	Pertti Niittylä	1:18.85	14
1500 m	Pertti Niittylä	2:00.01	14
5000 m	Pertti Niittylä	7:21.51	17
10,000 m	Pertti Niittylä	15:29.98	19

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
Event	Athlete	Time	Rank
500 m	Anneli Repola	44.33	20
1000 m	Anneli Repola	1:31.76	28
1500 m	Anneli Repola	2:17.81	21
3000 m	Anneli Repola	4:50.51	15

References

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Finland at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Contents

Medalists

Biathlon

Cross-country skiing

Figure skating

Ice hockey

First Round - Red Division

Final round

Leading scorers

Nordic combined

Ski jumping

Speed skating

References