1980 Summer Olympics / Participant (Finland)

FIN

3	1	4th

Finland took part in the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow with a delegation of 105 athletes (99 men and 6 women) in 71 competitions in 16 sports.

The Finnish athletes won three gold, one silver and four bronze medals. With that, Finland took twelfth place in the medal table . Olympic champions were the archer Tomi Poikolainen , the rower Pertti Karppinen in a single and the sailor Esko Rechardt in the Finn dinghy. The athlete Kaarlo Maaninka won the silver medal over 10,000 meters and the bronze medal over 5000 meters. The three other bronze medals were won by the archer Päivi Aaltonen , the welterweight wrestler Mikko Huhtala in the Greco-Roman style and the sailors Georg Tallberg and Jouko Lindgren in the 470 dinghy. The standard bearer at the opening ceremony was the sailor Peter Tallberg .

Participants by sport

Archery

Men

• Tomi Poikolainen

  Single: gold

• Kyösti Laasons

  Singles: 7th place

Women

• Päivi Aaltonen

  Single: bronze

• Carita Jussila

  Individual: 14th place

Boxing

• Antti Juntumaa

  Light flyweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Veli Koota

  Bantamweight: eliminated in the round of 16

• Hannu Kaislama

  Featherweight: eliminated in the 1st round

• Kalevi Marjamaa

  Welterweight: eliminated in the second round

• Tarmo Uusivirta

  Middleweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

fencing

Men

• Heikki Hulkkonen

  Foil: 27th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Mikko salt mines

  Foil: 30th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Peder Planting

  Foil: 36th place

  Foil team: 9th place

• Kimmo Puranen

  Foil team: 9th place

• Peter Grönholm

  Foil team: 9th place

Soccer

• eliminated in the group stage

  Ari-Pekka Heikkinen

  Juhani Himanka

  Aki Lahtinen

  Ari Tissari

  Hannu Turunen

  Jouko Alila

  Jouko Soini

  Juha Dahllund

  Juha Helin

  Juha Rissanen

  Kari Virtanen

  Olli Isoaho

  Raimo Kuuluvainen

  Teuvo Vilen

  Tomi Jalo

  Vesa Pulliainen

Weightlifting

• Arvo Ojalehto

  Bantamweight: 13th place

• Juhani Salakka

  Lightweight: 10th place

• Tapio Kinnunen

  Middleweight: 6th place

• Juhani Avellan

  Light heavyweight: 8th place

• Pekka Niemi

  1st heavyweight: 10th place

• Viktor Sirkia

  2. Heavyweight: 9th place

• Jouko Leppä

  Super heavyweight: competition not finished

Judo

• Reino Fagerlund

  Super light weight: eliminated in the 1st round of hope

• Seppo Myllyl

  Lightweight: eliminated in the last sixteen

• Jaakko Saari

  Open class: eliminated in the 1st round

canoe

Men

• Hannu Kojo

  Single kayak 1000 m: eliminated in the quarterfinals

• Timo Grönlund

  Single canoe 500 m: 6th place

  Single Canoe 1000 m: 6th place

• Jarmo Hakala

  Two-man Canadians 500 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  Two-man Canadians 1000 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Jyrki Hakala

  Two-man Canadians 500 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

  Two-man Canadians 1000 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

athletics

Men

• Antti Loikkanen

  1500 m: eliminated in the semi-finals

• Kaarlo Maaninka

  5000 m: bronze

  10,000 m: silver

• Martti Vainio

  5000 m: 11th place

  10,000 m: 13th place

• Let Virén

  10,000 m: 5th place

  Marathon: race not finished

• Håkan Spik

  Marathon: 32nd place

• Jouni Kortelainen

  Marathon: race not finished

• Arto Bryggare

  110 m hurdles: 6th place

• Tommy Ekblom

  3000 m obstacle: 12th place

• Vesa Laukkanen

  3000 m obstacle: eliminated in the semifinals

• Reima saloons

  20 km walking: 9th place

  50 km walking: race not finished

• Tapani Haapakoski

  Pole vault: 9th place

• Rauli Pudas

  Pole vault: 12th place

• Antti Kalliomäki

  Pole vault: without a valid height

• Olli Pousi

  Triple jump: without a valid distance

• Reijo Ståhlberg

  Shot put: 4th place

• Markku Tuokko

  Discus throw: 9th place

• Harri Huhtala

  Hammer throw: 9th place

• Juha Tiainen

  Hammer throw: 10th place

• Antero puranes

  Javelin throw: 5th place

• Pentti Sinersaari

  Javelin throw: 6th place

• Aimo Aho

  Javelin throw: 9th place

• Esa Jokinen

  Decathlon: 9th place

• Johannes Lahti

  Decathlon: 11th place

Women

• Helinä Laihorinne-Marjamaa

  100 m: eliminated in the preliminary run

• Pirjo Haggman

  400 m: 7th place

• Tiina Lillak

  Javelin throw: 14th place

Modern pentathlon

• Heikki Hulkkonen

  Singles: 10th place

  Team: 7th place

• Jussi Pelli

  Singles: 24th place

  Team: 7th place

• Pekka Santanen

  Singles: 31st place

  Team: 7th place

Cycling

• Harry Hannus

  Road race: 12th place

  Team time trial: 7th place

• Kari Puisto

  Road race: 24th place

  Team time trial: 7th place

• Mauno Uusivirta

  Road race: 38th place

• Patrick Wackström

  Team time trial: 7th place

• Sixten Wackström

  Road Race: Race not finished

  Team time trial: 7th place

  Track single pursuit 4000 m: 11th place

horse riding

• Kyra Kyrklund

  Dressage: 5th place

• Christopher Wegelius

  Show jumping: 12th place

Wrestling

• Reijo Haaparanta

  Light flyweight, Greco-Roman: 5th place

• Taisto halons

  Flyweight, Greco-Roman: 7th place

• Pertti Ukkola

  Bantamweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Tapio Sipilä

  Lightweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Mikko Huhtala

  Greterweight, Greco-Roman: bronze

• Jarmo Övermark

  Middleweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 2nd round

• Keijo Manni

  Light heavyweight, Greco-Roman: eliminated in the 3rd round

• Pekka Rauhala

  Lightweight, freestyle: 8th place

rowing

• Pertti Karppinen

  One: gold

shoot

• Olavi Heikkinen

  Rapid fire pistol 25 m: 29th place

• Seppo Saarenpää

  Free pistol 50 m: 5th place

• Paavo Palokangas

  Free pistol 50 m: 8th place

• Mauri Röppänen

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 4th place

• Timo Hagman

  Small bore rifle, three-position fight 50 m: 19th place

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 5th place

• Jyrki Lehtonen

  Small bore rifle lying 50 m: 25th place

• Jorma Lievonen

  Running target 50 m: 6th place

• Juha Rannikko

  Running target 50 m: 12th place

• Ari Westergård

  Skeet: 8th place

swim

Men

• Martti Järventaus

  100 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

  200 m chest: eliminated in the preliminary run

sailing

• Esko Rechardt

  Finn dinghy: gold

• Georg Tallberg

  470 dinghy: bronze

• Jouko Lindgren

  470 dinghy: bronze

• Mathias Tallberg

  Star: 11th place

• Peter Tallberg

  Star: 11th place

• Juha Siira

  Tornado: 6th place

• Pekka Narko

  Tornado: 6th place

Web links

• Finnish Olympic team from 1980 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )