Juhani Salmenkylä
| Medal record | ||
|---|---|---|
| Men's orienteering | ||
Representing  Finland
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| World Championships | ||
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1966 Fiskars | Relay |
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1968 Linköping | Relay |
| European Championships | ||
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1964 Le Brassus | Relay |
Juhani Salmenkylä (born March 8, 1932 in Helsinki) is a Finnish retired orienteering competitor and European champion, basketball player, coach, referee and contributor. In orienteering he won a gold medal with the Finnish relay team at the 1964 European Orienteering Championships in Le Brassus.[1]
Orienteering[]
He received a silver medal in the relay at the 1966 World Orienteering Championships with the Finnish team, and again in 1968.[2]
His daughter Leena Salmenkylä — World Champion in relay 1979.[3]
Basketball[]
Salmenkylä impacted Finnish basketball with large radius. As a player, he won seven national championships. As a referee he participated in many tournaments abroad, including the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. He was also a top tier coach in Finland, and served as the head of Finnish Basketball Association in 1969–1972.[4][5]
In August 2015 Salmenkylä was inducted into the Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame.[6]
See also[]
- Finnish orienteers
- List of orienteers
- List of orienteering events
References[]
- ^ European Orienteering Championship senior, statistics 1962-1964, 2000- Archived 2011-08-23 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on June 4, 2008)
- ^ World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 2011-02-22 at WebCite (Retrieved on June 4, 2008)
- ^ "Juhani Salmenkylä. Who is Who". WMOC 2008 Portugal. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
- ^ "Juhani Salmenkylä". Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Juhani Salmenkylä". baskethotel.com. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
- ^ "Airas, Finneman, Pounds ja Salmenkylä Suomi-koriksen Hall of Fameen". Finnish Basketball Association. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
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