Eero Mäntyranta

Eero Mäntyranta
Full name	Eero Antero Mäntyranta
nation	Finland
birthday	November 20, 1937
place of birth	Pello ,  Finland
size	170 cm
date of death	December 30, 2013
Place of death	Oulu ,  Finland
Career
society	Pellon Ponsi
Medal table
Olympic games 3 × 2 × 2 × World championships 2 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Squaw Valley 1960 4 × 10 km gold Innsbruck 1964 15 km gold Innsbruck 1964 30 km silver Innsbruck 1964 4 × 10 km silver Grenoble 1968 15 km bronze Grenoble 1968 30 km bronze Grenoble 1968 4 × 10 km  Nordic World Ski Championships gold Zakopane 1962 30 km silver Zakopane 1962 4 × 10 km gold Oslo 1966 30 km silver Oslo 1966 4 × 10 km bronze Oslo 1966 50 km

Eero Antero Mäntyranta (born November 20, 1937 in Turtola , † December 30, 2013 in Oulu ) was a Finnish cross-country skier .

Career

Mäntyranta took part in the Winter Olympics four times between 1960 and 1972 , winning three gold, two silver and two bronze medals. At world championships he won two gold, two silver and one bronze medal. In 1962, 1964 and 1968 he won the 15 km run at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival . In 1964 he received the Holmenkollen Medal for this . At the Svenska Skidspelen he won over 30 km in 1961 and in 1965 with the relay. He was also runner-up in 1962 over 30 km and with the relay and in 1964 and 1965 over 30 km each. In March 1964 he won the 15 km run at the Lahti Ski Games for the first time . Two years later he achieved second place over 50 km and in early March 1968 second place over 15 km. In March 1972 he triumphed again in the 15 km run.

Mäntyranta was the first Finnish athlete to test positive for doping . At the Finnish championships in 1972, the consumption of amphetamines could be proven in him , but the finding was initially kept a secret. After the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo , where he was without a medal, the test result was subsequently known, but Mäntyranta denied any guilt. He later admitted using hormonal drugs that were not banned during his sports career. After a DNA analysis carried out in 1993 on 200 people of his relatives, it was found that Mäntyranta had a point mutation in the gene for the erythropoietin receptor. As a result, he produced more red blood cells and was more productive than athletes without this mutation.

His nephew Pertti Teurajärvi was also known as a cross-country skier.

successes

winter Olympics

• 1960 in Squaw Valley : Gold with the relay
• 1964 in Innsbruck : gold over 15 km, gold over 30 km, silver with the relay
• 1968 in Grenoble : silver over 15 km, bronze over 30 km, bronze with the relay

Nordic World Ski Championships

• 1962 in Zakopane : gold over 30 km, silver with the relay
• 1966 in Oslo : Gold over 30 km, silver with the relay, bronze over 50 km

Web links

• Eero Mäntyranta in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• Eero Mäntyranta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual proof

1. ↑ Holmenkollen Ski Festival winners list
2. ↑ Results Svenska Skidspelen
3. ↑ Results Lahti Ski Games
4. ↑ de la Chapelle A, Traskelin AL, Juvonen E. (1993). "Truncated erythropoietin receptor causes dominantly inherited benign human erythrocytosis." Proc Natl Acad Sci USA . 90 (10): 4495-9.