Väinö Huhtala

Väinö Huhtala
Full name	Väinö Veikko Huhtala
nation	Finland
birthday	December 24, 1935
place of birth	Revonlahti
date of death	June 18, 2016
Place of death	Jämsä
Career
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 1 × 0 × World Cup medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics gold Squaw Valley 1960 Season silver Innsbruck 1964 Season  Nordic World Ski Championships silver Zakopane 1962 Season

Väinö Veikko Huhtala (born December 24, 1935 in Revonlahti near Siikajoki , † June 18, 2016 in Jämsä ) was a Finnish cross-country skier who started in the late 1950s and 1960s.

His most significant success is winning the gold medal with the Finnish 4x10 km relay at the 1960 Winter Olympics. He won one relay silver medal each at the 1962 World Championships and the 1964 Winter Olympics. Huhtala's best result in an individual Olympic race is fourth in the 15-kilometer run in 1964. He also won in 1960 at the Svenska Skidspelen with the relay. In the Finnish championships he won four times with the relay (1960, 1961, 1963, 1964) and twice over 15 km (1961, 1962). His brother is the former cross-country skier Eino Huhtala .

successes

• 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley : Gold with the relay
• Olympic Winter Games 1964 in Innsbruck : Silver with the relay
• Nordic World Ski Championships 1962 in Zakopane : silver with the relay

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Hiihdon olympiavoittaja Väinö Huhtala kuollut . In: Yle Urheilu . Yle . June 25, 2016. Retrieved February 12, 2017.