Mirja Hietamies

Mirja Hietamies
Full name	Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies-Eteläpää
nation	Finland
birthday	January 7, 1931
place of birth	Lemi , Finland
size	162 cm
Weight	52-54 kg
date of death	March 14, 2013
Place of death	Savitaipale , Finland
Career
society	Lemin Eskot
National squad	since 1951
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 2 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver 1952 Oslo 10 km gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 × 5 km  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1952 Oslo 10 km silver 1954 Falun 3 × 5 km bronze 1954 Falun 10 km gold 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo 3 × 5 km

Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies , after the wedding Mirja Kyllikki Hietamies-Eteläpää (born January 7, 1931 in Lemi , † March 14, 2013 in Savitaipale ) was a Finnish cross-country skier who started in the 1950s.

Career

Hietamies celebrated its first success on Holmenkollen in 1951, where he finished second over 10 km. A year later it started for Finland at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 , which were also held as the Nordic World Ski Championships. In the cross-country skiing competitions for women, which were held for the first time, she won the silver medal over 10 km behind her compatriot Lydia Wideman .

In 1953 Hietamies secured her first Finnish championship title over 10 km after winning only bronze in 1952.

A year later at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun in 1954 , Hietamies won the silver medal over 3 × 5 km together with Sirkka Polkunen and Siiri Rantanen . In the 10 km individual run she won her second medal and secured bronze. After winning the 10 km race at the Lahti Ski Games and in Ounasvaara twice in a row , she was voted Finnish Sportswoman of the Year in 1955 .

After she was able to win her second national title at the beginning of 1956, she graduated from her career by starting at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . Together with Rantanen and Polkunen, she won the gold medal in the relay race over 3 × 5 km, becoming Olympic and world champion at the same time. In the individual run over 10 km she missed another Olympic medal in sixth place.

After her active career, Hietamies worked from 1965 to 1967 as a board member in the Finnish Ski Association . In 2013, Hietamies died in Savitaipale at the age of 82 .

successes

• 1952 Olympic Winter Games in Oslo : Silver over 10 km
• 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo : Gold with the relay
• Nordic World Ski Championships 1954 in Falun : silver with the relay, bronze over 10 km

Web links

• Mirja Hietamies in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Mirja Hietamies in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Obituary (Finnish)
2. ↑ Mirja Hietamies-Eteläpää is dead . Rheinische Post . March 16, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2014.
3. ↑ Olympic champion Hietamies-Eteläpää has died . FOCUS . March 16, 2013. Retrieved May 10, 2014.