Juha Mieto

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Medal record
Juha Mieto
Juha Mieto
Competitor for Flag of Finland Finland
Men's Cross Country Skiing
Olympic Games
Gold 1976 Innsbruck 4 x 10 km
Silver 1980 Lake Placid 15 km
Silver 1980 Lake Placid 50 km
Bronze 1980 Lake Placid 4 x 10 km
Bronze 1984 Sarajevo 4 x 10 km
World Championships
Silver 1974 Falun 30 km
Silver 1978 Lahti 4 x 10 km
Bronze 1978 Lahti 50 km
Bronze 1982 Oslo 4 x 10 km

Juha Mieto (born November 20, 1949 in Kurikka). is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed during the 1970s and 1980s. He won five medals at the Winter Olympics. His loss to Sweden's Thomas Wassberg in the 15km at the 1980 Winter Olympics by 0.01 seconds, the closest margin of victory ever in Olympic cross-country skiing led the International Ski Federation (FIS) to round all of their times to the nearest 1/10th second in future competitions.

Mieto also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, with silvers in the 30 km (1974) and the 4 x 10 km (1978), and bronzes in the 15 km (1978) and the 4 x 10 km (1982, tied with East Germany). His biggest success as a cross country skier was at the Holmenkollen ski festival where he won the 50 km once (1973) and the 15 km five times (1973-1975, 1977-1978).

He received the Holmenkollen medal in 1974.

In the 2007 Finnish parliament elections he was a Centre Party candidate in Vaasa constituency, and got elected with 13 768 votes; the seventh most in the whole Finland.[1]

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Olympic champions in men's 4 x 10 km cross country relay
1936 Finland - Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, & Kalle Jalkanen * 1948 Sweden - Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, & Martin Lundström * 1952 Finland - Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, & Tapio Mäkelä * 1956 Soviet Union - Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, & Vladimir Kuzin * 1960 Finland - Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, & Veikko Hakulinen * 1964 Sweden - Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, & Assar Rönnlund * 1968 Norway - Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, & Ole Ellefsæter * 1972 Soviet Union - Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, & Vyacheslav Vedenin * 1976 Finland - Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, & Arto Koivisto * 1980 Soviet Union - Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, & Nikolay Zimyatov * 1984 Sweden - Thomas Wassberg, Benny Tord Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, & Gunde Svan * 1988 Sweden - Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan & Torgny Mogren * 1992 Norway - Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal & Bjørn Dæhlie * 1994 Italy - Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta & Silvio Fauner * 1998 Norway - Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, & Thomas Alsgaard * 2002 Norway - Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, & Thomas Alsgaard * 2006 Italy - Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, & Cristian Zorzi
Preceded by
Einar Bergsland, Ingolf Mork, & Franz Keller		 Holmenkollen medal
1974		 Succeeded by
Gerhard Grimmer, Oddvar Brå, & Ivar Formo
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