Finland at the 1980 Winter Olympics

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Sporting event delegation

Finland at the 1980 Winter Olympics
IOC code	FIN
NOC	Finnish Olympic Committee
Website	sport.fi/olympiakomitea (in Finnish and Swedish)
in Lake Placid
Competitors	52 (44 men, 8 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearer	Heikki Ikola (biathlon)
Medals Ranked 7th	Gold 1 Silver 5 Bronze 3 Total 9
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
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Finland competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, New York, United States.

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Jouko Törmänen	Ski jumping	Men's large hill (K120 individual 90m)
Silver	Juha Mieto	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Silver	Juha Mieto	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Silver	Hilkka Riihivuori	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Silver	Hilkka Riihivuori	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Silver	Jouko Karjalainen	Nordic combined	Men's individual
Bronze	Harri Kirvesniemi Juha Mieto Matti Pitkänen Pertti Teurajärvi	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Bronze	Helena Takalo	Cross-country skiing	Women's 10 km
Bronze	Jari Puikkonen	Ski jumping	Men's large hill (K120 individual 90m)

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Misses 1	Time	Rank
10 km Sprint	Keijo Kuntola	5	37:15.28	35
	Arto Sutinen	3	36:01.06	24
	Erkki Antila	2	34:32.97	12

Event	Athlete	Time	Penalties	Adjusted time 2	Rank
20 km	Raimo Seppänen	1'13:15.67	6	1'19:15.67	32
	Heikki Ikola	1'10:02.16	5	1'15:02.16	18
	Erkki Antila	1'07:32.32	4	1'11:32.32	5

Men's 4 x 7.5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Misses 1	Time	Rank
Keijo Kuntola Erkki Antila Kari Saarela Raimo Seppänen	6	1'38:50.84	7

¹ A penalty loop of 150 metres had to be skied per missed target.

² One minute added per close miss (a hit in the outer ring), two minutes added per complete miss.

Cross-country skiing

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Pertti Teurajärvi	43:59.08	20
	Kari Härkönen	43:50.31	19
	Harri Kirvesniemi	43:02.01	8
	Juha Mieto	41:57.64
30 km	Jorma Aalto	1'32:48.10	26
	Harri Kirvesniemi	1'31:35.13	18
	Juha Mieto	1'29:45.08	7
	Matti Pitkänen	1'29:35.03	6
50 km	Pertti Teurajärvi	2'36:44.08	18
	Matti Pitkänen	2'34:09.04	11
	Asko Autio	2'32:25.57	9
	Juha Mieto	2'30:30.52

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Harri Kirvesniemi Pertti Teurajärvi Matti Pitkänen Juha Mieto	2'00:00.18

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Marja Auroma	16:18.44	25
	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	15:58.27	19
	Helena Takalo	15:32.12	8
	Hilkka Riihivuori	15:11.96
10 km	Ulla Maaskola	33:22.19	32
	Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen	32:22.88	18
	Helena Takalo	30:45.25
	Hilkka Riihivuori	30:35.05

Women's 4 × 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Marja Auroma Marja-Liisa Hämäläinen Helena Takalo Hilkka Riihivuori	1'04:41.28	5

Figure skating

Main article: Figure skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Women

Athlete	CF	SP	FS	Points	Places	Rank
Susan Broman	14	17	17	157.54	152	17
Kristiina Wegelius	7	11	12	172.04	87	10

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1980 Winter Olympics

First Round - Red Division

	Team advanced to the Final Round
	Team advanced to consolation round

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
Soviet Union	5	5	0	0	51	11	10
Finland	5	3	2	0	26	18	6
Canada	5	3	2	0	28	12	6
Poland	5	2	3	0	15	23	4
Netherlands	5	1	3	1	16	43	3
Japan	5	0	4	1	7	36	1

All times are local (UTC-5).

12 February 1980 20:00

Poland

5 – 4 (1–0, 4–3, 0–1)

Finland

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	Zabawa (Jobczyk, Małysiak) (PP) - 14:48 1 – 0 1 – 1 21:16 - Levo (Litma, Hakulinen) (PP) Zabawa (Jobczyk, Małysiak) - 27:13 2 – 1 Kokoszka (Chowaniec) - 29:52 3 – 1 3 – 2 30:27 - Porvari (Leinonen, Suoraniemi) Jobczyk (Małysiak, Zabawa) - 33:08 4 – 2 Kokoszka (Dziubiński, Marcinczak) - 34:40 5 – 2 5 – 3 36:57 - Leinonen (Kiimalainen, Porvari) 5 – 4 46:05 - Leppänen (Levo, Peltonen)
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	25	Shots	49

14 February 1980 20:00

Japan

3 – 6 (0–2, 2–2, 1–2)

Finland

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	0 – 1 02:02 - Hakulinen (Peltonen) (PP) 0 – 2 05:43 - Leinonen (Kiimalainen) 0 – 3 22:47 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo) 0 – 4 33:36 - Leinonen (Leinonen, Porvari) S. Misawa (Hori, Hanzawa) - 37:57 1 – 4 Honma (Hori, S. Misawa) (PP) - 39:59 2 – 4 2 – 5 43:34 - Kiimalainen Azuma (Matsuda) - 47:38 3 – 5 3 – 6 51:11 - Leppänen (Levo, Peltonen)
	6 min	Penalties	8 min
	29	Shots	51

16 February 1980 20:30

Canada

3 – 4 (1–2, 0–1, 2–1)

Finland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Lindgren
	0 – 1 04:03 - Peltonen (Suoraniemi) MacLean (Berry, O'Malley) - 14:22 1 – 1 1 – 2 19:51 - Leppänen (Hakulinen, Levo) 1 – 3 37:07 - Koskilahti G. Anderson (Nill, Davidson) - 46:47 2 – 3 2 – 4 56:55 - Suoraniemi (Leppänen) (SH) Primeau (Hindmarch, Devaney) - 57:09 3 – 4
	16 min	Penalties	10 min
	33	Shots	26

18 February 1980 17:00

Finland

2 – 4 (1–0, 0–1, 1–3)

Soviet Union

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Haley
	Porvari (Suoraniemi) - 17:44 1 – 0 1 – 1 36:01 - Fetisov (Makarov, A. Golikov) Porvari (SH) - 42:38 2 – 1 2 – 2 54:59 - Krutov (Lebedev) 2 – 3 56:07 - Maltsev (Krutov, Lebedev) 2 – 4 56:18 - Mikhailov (Kasatonov)
	14 min	Penalties	8 min
	13	Shots	48

20 February 1980 20:00

Finland

10 – 3 (2–1, 2–1, 6–1)

Netherlands

Olympic Arena, Lake Placid

				Referee: Kompalla
	Porvari - 10:41 1 – 0 1 – 1 18:13 - van Wieren (de Heer) Leppänen (Litma, Eloranta) - 18:28 2 – 1 2 – 2 30:25 - Klooster (deGraauw) Villa (Koskinen, Saarinen) - 33:07 3 – 2 Porvari (Leinonen) - 34:12 4 – 2 Kurri (Litma, Leppänen) (PP2) - 42:35 5 – 2 Peltonen (Leppänen, Kurri) (PP) - 43:44 6 – 2 Koskinen (Eloranta) (PP) - 44:34 7 – 2 Hakulinen (Peltonen, Leppänen) - 46:10 8 – 2 Kurri (Eloranta, Hakulinen) (PP2) - 48:16 9 – 2 Haapalainen (Leinonen, Kiimalainen) - 51:03 10 – 2 10 – 3 53:04 - Peternousek (de Heer, van Wieren)
	4 min	Penalties	22 min
	42	Shots	16

Final round

The top two teams from each group play the top two teams from the other group once. Points from previous games against their own group carry over, excluding teams who failed to make the medal round.

Team	GP	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
United States	3	2	0	1	10	7	5
Soviet Union	3	2	1	0	16	8	4
Sweden	3	0	1	2	7	14	2
Finland 4th	3	0	2	1	7	11	1

22 February 1980 20:42

Finland

3 – 3 (1–0, 1–1, 1–2)

Sweden

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Neagles
	Leinonen (Porvari, Kiimalainen) - 03:00 1 – 0 Porvari (Eloranta) - 27:06 2 – 0 2 – 1 30:25 - Weinstock 2 – 2 45:24 - Jonsson (Åhlberg, Holmgren) 2 – 3 46:14 - Waltin (Norberg) Leinonen (Porvari) - 47:59 3 – 3
	6 min	Penalties	6 min
	25	Shots	30

24 February 1980 11:00

United States

4 – 2 (0–1, 1–1, 3–0)

Finland

Olympic Fieldhouse, Lake Placid

				Referee: Vladimir Šubrt
	0 – 1 09:20 - Porvari (Leinonen, Litma) Christoff - 24:39 1 – 1 1 – 2 26:30 - Leinonen (Haapalainen, Kiimalainen) (PP) Verchota (Christian) - 42:25 2 – 2 McClanahan (Johnson, Christian) - 46:05 3 – 2 Johnson (Christoff) (SH) - 56:25 4 – 2
	10 min	Penalties	4 min
	29	Shots	23

Carried over group match:

• Finland 2–4 USSR

Leading scorers

Rank	Player	GP	G	A	Pts
5th	Jukka Porvari	7	7	4	11

• Team roster
  • Antero Kivelä
  • Jorma Valtonen
  • Kari Eloranta
  • Hannu Haapalainen
  • Lasse Litma
  • Tapio Levo
  • Olli Saarinen
  • Seppo Suoraniemi
  • Markku Hakulinen
  • Markku Kiimalainen
  • Jukka Koskilahti
  • Hannu Koskinen
  • Jari Kurri
  • Mikko Leinonen
  • Reijo Leppänen
  • Jarmo Mäkitalo
  • Esa Peltonen
  • Jukka Porvari
  • Timo Susi
  • Ismo Villa
• Head coach: Kalevi Numminen

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Events:

• normal hill ski jumping (Three jumps, best two counted and shown here.)
• 15 km cross-country skiing

Athlete	Event	Ski Jumping				Cross-country			Total
		Distance 1	Distance 2	Points	Rank	Time	Points	Rank	Points	Rank
Rauno Miettinen	Individual	67.0	72.5	171.9	24	50:26.9	195.640	18	367.540	23
Jorma Etelälahti		72.0	79.5	192.6	14	50:02.4	199.315	15	391.915	13
Jouko Karjalainen		79.0	81.0	209.5	7	47:44.5	220.000	1	429.500
Jukka Kuvaja		68.5	68.5	155.0	31	48:32.2	212.845	7	367.845	22

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Kari Ylianttila	Normal hill	76.0	105.8	72.0	97.4	203.2	32
Jari Puikkonen		81.0	115.8	80.0	111.7	227.5	16
Jouko Törmänen		83.0	119.0	85.5	124.5	243.5	8
Pentti Kokkonen		86.0	126.8	83.5	120.8	247.6	5
Kari Ylianttila	Large hill	102.0	111.0	106.0	118.1	229.1	13
Pentti Kokkonen		105.0	115.2	105.0	115.7	230.9	12
Jari Puikkonen		110.5	126.4	108.5	122.1	248.5
Jouko Törmänen		114.5	133.5	117.0	137.5	271.0

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1980 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Esa Puolakka	39.76	25
	Pertti Niittylä	39.54	22
	Jukka Salmela	39.32	18
1000 m	Esa Puolakka	1:23.54	35
	Jukka Salmela	1:21.78	30
	Pertti Niittylä	1:18.85	14
1500 m	Pertti Niittylä	2:00.01	14
5000 m	Pertti Niittylä	7:21.51	17
10,000 m	Pertti Niittylä	15:29.98	19

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Anneli Repola	44.33	20
1000 m	Anneli Repola	1:31.76	28
1500 m	Anneli Repola	2:17.81	21
3000 m	Anneli Repola	4:50.51	15

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1980, full results by sports-reference.com