Helena Takalo

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Medal record
Women's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold	1976 Innsbruck	5 km
Silver	1972 Sapporo	3 x 5 km
Silver	1976 Innsbruck	10 km
Silver	1976 Innsbruck	4 x 5 km
Bronze	1980 Lake Placid	10 km
World Championships
Gold	1978 Lahti	5 km
Gold	1978 Lahti	4 x 5 km
Bronze	1970 Vysoké Tatry	3 x 5 km
Bronze	1974 Falun	10 km
Bronze	1978 Lahti	20 km

Anni Helena Takalo (born October 28, 1947 in Nivala) is a former Finnish cross country skier. She was a part in dominating women's cross-country skiing in the 1970s, earning five Winter Olympic medals and four FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medals (golds in 5 km and 4 x 5 km (both 1978), and bronzes in 3 x 5 km (1970), 10 km (1974), and 20 km (1978).).

Takalo also won the women's 5 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1976. For her cross country skiing successes, she earned the Holmenkollen medal in 1977 (Shared with Hilkka Riihivuori and Walter Steiner).

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FIS-Ski: Helena Takalo - statistics
Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)

v • d • e Olympic champions in women's 5 km cross-country skiing

1964: Klavdiya Boyarskikh * 1968: Toini Gustafsson * 1972: Galina Kulakova * 1976: Helena Takalo * 1980: Raisa Smetanina * 1984: Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen * 1988: Marjo Matikainen-Kallström * 1992: Marjut Lukkarinen * 1994: Lyubov Yegorova * 1998: Larisa Lazutina

v • d • e World champions in women's 5 km cross-country skiing

1962: Alevtina Kolchina * 1966: Alevtina Kolchina * 1970: Galina Kulakova * 1974: Galina Kulakova * 1978: Helena Takalo * 1982: Berit Aunli * 1985: Anette Bøe * 1987: Marjo Matikainen * 1991: Trude Dybendahl * 1993: Larisa Lazutina * 1995: Larisa Lazutina * 1997: Yelena Välbe * 1999: Bente Martinsen

v • d • e World champions in women's cross country skiing 3/4 x 5 km relay

3 x 5 km	1954 Soviet Union - Lyubov Kozyreva, Margarita Maslennikova & Valentina Tsaryova * 1958 Soviet Union - Radya Yeroshina, Alevtina Kolchina & Lyubov Kozyreva * 1962 Soviet Union - Lyubov Baranova, Maria Gusakova & Alevtina Kolchina * 1966 Soviet Union - Klavdiya Boyarskikh, Rita Achkina & Alevtina Kolchina * 1970 Soviet Union - Nina Baldycheva, Galina Kulakova & Alevtina Olyunina

4 x 5 km	1974 Soviet Union - Nina Baldycheva, Nina Selyunina, Raisa Smetanina & Galina Kulakova * 1978 Finland - Taina Impiö, Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen, Hilkka Riihivuori & Helena Takalo * 1982 Norway - Anette Bøe, Inger Helene Nybråten, Berit Aunli & Britt Pettersen * 1985 Soviet Union - Tamara Tikhonova, Raisa Smetanina, Liliya Vasilchenko & Anfisa Romanova * 1987 Soviet Union - Antonina Ordina, Nina Gavrilyuk, Larisa Ptistyna, & Anfisa Reztsova * 1989 Finland - Pirkko Määttä, Marja-Liisa Kirvesniemi, Jaana Savolainen & Marjo Matikainen * 1991 Soviet Union - Lyubov Yegorova, Raisa Smetanina, Tamara Tikhonova & Yelena Välbe * 1993 Russia - Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Lyubov Yegorova * 1995 Russia - Olga Danilova, Yelena Välbe, Larisa Lazutina & Nina Gavrilyuk * 1997 Russia - Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Nina Gavrilyuk & Yelena Välbe * 1999 Russia - Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Anfisa Reztsova & Nina Gavrilyuk * 2001 Russia - Olga Danilova, Larisa Lazutina, Yuliya Chepalova & Nina Gavrilyuk * 2003 Germany - Manuela Henkel, Viola Bauer, Claudia Künzel & Evi Sachenbacher * 2005 Norway - Vibeke Skofterud, Hilde Gjermundshaug Pedersen, Kristin Størmer Steira & Marit Bjørgen * 2007 Finland - Virpi Kuitunen, Aino-Kaisa Saarinen, Riitta-Liisa Roponen & Pirjo Manninen

Awards
Preceded by Riitta Salin	Finnish Sportswoman of the Year 1975 – 1976	Succeeded by Lea Hilokoski
Preceded by Lea Hilokoski	Finnish Sportswoman of the Year 1978	Succeeded by Outi Borgenström
Preceded by Ulrich Wehling	Holmenkollen medal with Hilkka Riihivuori and Walter Steiner 1977	Succeeded by Ingemar Stenmark Erik Håker Raisa Smetanina