Mika Myllylä

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Medal record
Men's cross country skiing
Olympic Games
Gold	1998 Nagano	30 km
Silver	1994 Lillehammer	50 km
Bronze	1994 Lillehammer	30 km
Bronze	1994 Lillehammer	4 x 10 km
Bronze	1998 Nagano	10 km
Bronze	1998 Nagano	4 x 10 km
World Championships
Gold	1997 Trondheim	50 km
Gold	1999 Ramsau	10 km
Gold	1999 Ramsau	30 km
Gold	1999 Ramsau	50 km
Silver	1997 Trondheim	10 km + 15 km combined pursuit
Silver	1997 Trondheim	4 x 10 km
Silver	1999 Ramsau	10 km + 15 km combined pursuit
Bronze	1995 Thunder Bay	10 km
Bronze	1997 Trondheim	10 km
Disqualified	2001 Lahti	4 x 10 km

Mika Myllylä (born September 12, 1969 in Haapajärvi). is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold (1998: 30 km), one silver (1994: 50 km), and four bronzes (1994: 30 km, 4 x 10 km; 1998: 10 km, 4 x 10 km).

Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning four golds (1997: 50 km, 1999: 10 km, 30 km, 50 km), three silvers (10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1997, 1999; 4 x 10 km relay: 1997), and two bronzes (10 km: 1995, 1997).

He was on the way to become one of the greatest stars in XC-skiing history, until he got involved in the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships doping scandal that would affect five other Finnish skiers for taking hydroyethyl starch (HES), a blood plasma expander. Myllylä would receive a two year suspension from the FIS as a result.

[edit] See also

List of sportspeople sanctioned for doping offences

[edit] References

FIS-Ski: Mika Myllylae - statistics

v • d • e Olympic champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing

1956: Veikko Hakulinen * 1960 Sixten Jernberg * 1964: Eero Mäntyranta * 1968: Franco Nones * 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin * 1976: Sergey Savelyev * 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov * 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov * 1988: Alexey Prokurorov * 1992: Vegard Ulvang * 1994: Thomas Alsgaard * 1998: Mika Myllylä * 2002: Christian Hoffmann

v • d • e World champions in men's 10 km cross country

1991: Terje Langli * 1993: Sture Sivertsen * 1995: Vladimir Smirnov * 1997: Bjørn Dæhlie * 1999: Mika Myllylä

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World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing

1926: Matti Raivio * 1954: Vladimir Kuzin * 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen * 1962: Eero Mäntyranta * 1966: Eero Mäntyranta * 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin * 1974: Thomas Magnusson * 1978: Sergey Savelyev * 1982: Thomas Eriksson * 1985: Gunde Svan * 1987: Thomas Wassberg * 1989: Vladimir Smirnov * 1991: Gunde Svan * 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie * 1995: Vladimir Smirnov * 1997: Alexey Prokurorov * 1999: Mika Myllylä * 2001: Andrus Veerpalu * 2003: Thomas Alsgaard

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World champions in men's 50 km cross country

1925: František Donth * 1926: Matti Raivio * 1927: John Lindgren * 1929: Anselm Knuuttila * 1930: Sven Utterström * 1931: Ole Stenen * 1933: Veli Saarinen * 1934: Elis Wiklund * 1935: Nils-Joel Englund * 1937: Pekka Niemi * 1938: Kalle Jalkanen * 1939: Lars Bergendahl * 1950: Gunnar Eriksson * 1954: Vladimir Kuzin * 1958: Sixten Jernberg * 1962: Sixten Jernberg * 1966: Gjermund Eggen * 1970: Kalevi Oikarainen * 1974: Gerhard Grimmer * 1978: Sven-Åke Lundbäck * 1982: Thomas Wassberg * 1985: Gunde Svan * 1987: Maurilio De Zolt * 1989: Gunde Svan * 1991: Torgny Mogren * 1993: Torgny Mogren * 1995: Silvio Fauner * 1997: Mika Myllylä * 1999: Mika Myllylä * 2001: Johann Mühlegg * 2003: Martin Koukal * 2005: Frode Estil * 2007: Odd-Bjørn Hjelmeset

Awards
Preceded by Jari Litmanen	Finnish Sportsman of the Year 1997	Succeeded by Mika Häkkinen
Preceded by Mika Häkkinen	Finnish Sportsman of the Year 1999	Succeeded by Arsi Harju