Juhani Salmenkylä

Juhani Salmenkylä (born March 8, 1932 in Helsinki ) is a former Finnish orienteer and basketball player . In 1964 he was European champion with the Finnish orienteering relay, with which he also won two silver medals at world championships.

Salmenkylä belonged to the Helsingin Suunnistajat club, founded in 1943 , one of the leading orienteering clubs in Finland at the time. With this club he won the Jukola relay race for the first time in 1950 at the age of 18, and in 1954 his first Finnish championship title with the club relay. At the same time he was a member of the basketball team Pantterit from Helsinki , which won the Finnish championship nine times in the 1950s. Salmenkylä was also active as a track and field athlete and won bronze at the Finnish championships in 1953 with the 4 × 1,500 meter relay. In 1954 he won the Tiomila competition in Sweden with the Helsingin Suunnistajat team . In 1955 Salmenkylä started at the first Nordic Championships in Kolmården , Sweden, and only had to admit defeat to the Swede Marthe Andersson there. Four years later he finished second again, this time behind Magne Lystad from Norway. Juhani Salmenkylä won his first international title in 1964 at the second European orienteering championships in Le Brassus, Switzerland . In a relay with Rolf Koskinen , Aimo Tepsell and Erkki Kohvakka , he won relay gold. While Kohvakka and Tepsell won gold and bronze in the individual run, Salmenkylä was only 17. In the same year he was head of the national basketball team of Finland and a member of the arbitration tribunal during the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo . In 1966 he won the O-rings in Sweden . At the first two orienteering world championships in 1966 and 1968 he narrowly missed the podium in the individual competitions, with each relay he won silver. In 1969 he became chairman of the Finnish Basketball Federation and held this post until 1972. In 1970 he was again winner of the Jukola season, which he won for the seventh time after 1950, 1952, 1953, 1956, 1957 and 1960. In 1972 he became a member of the Jukola Association, which owns the rights to the season.

Salmenkylä is a lawyer by profession. His father Anton Husgafvel , who took the name Salmenkylä in 1936, was a track and field athlete at the Summer Olympics in Paris in 1924 and later took part in orienteering competitions. The Salmenyklä family caused a stir at the Finnish orienteering championships in 1951, when Anton Salmenkylä won the M50 class, Juhani's brother Matti Salmenkylä became champion in the M20 class and Juhani himself won the junior title. He is married to the architect Pirkko Salmenkylä (née Niemi ). Pirkko Salmenkylä was the Finnish champion in orienteering with the women's relay in 1952. In 1949 she had also won a Finnish championship title in basketball. For the national basketball team, she played a total of seven games. Her daughter, Leena Salmenkylä-Mattila, was Finnish champion in relay orienteering in 1979.

Placements

	World championships			European championships			North. Championships			Finnish championships
year	E.	St.		E.	St.		E.	St.		E.	N	St.
1954												1.
1955							2.			2.		1.
1956												1.
1957											3.
1958										1.		3.
1959							2.			1.		1.
1960												3.
1961							8th.
1962
1963										3.
1964				17th	1.					1.
1965										1.
1966	5.	2.
1967							7th	2.				1.
1968	4th	2.										2.
1969								2.
1970
1971												1.
1972
1973												1.
E = individual competition, St = relay, N = night orienteering

Web links

• World Championship results
• Results of the Nordic Championships
• Interview with Juhani Salmenkylä (2008 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ basket.fi: Koripalloliiton toiminnan- ja puheenjohtajat sekä kunniajäsenet ( memento of the original from August 16, 2012 on WebCite ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed August 15, 2011 (Finnish) 
2. ↑ jukola.com: Members of the Jukola Association Kaukametsäläiset , accessed on August 15, 2011 (German)
3. ↑ jukola.com. The Jukola Association , accessed August 15, 2011
4. ↑ salmenkyla.fi: website of the Salmenyklä law firm