Juhani Salmenkylä (8 March 1932 – 4 May 2022) was a Finnish
orienteering
Orienteering is a group of sports that require navigational skills using a map and compass to navigate from point to point in diverse and usually unfamiliar terrain whilst moving at speed. Participants are given a topographical map, usually a s ...
competitor and European champion,
basketball player, coach, referee and contributor. He was born in
Helsinki. In orienteering he won a
gold medal
A gold medal is a medal awarded for highest achievement in a non-military field. Its name derives from the use of at least a fraction of gold in form of plating or alloying in its manufacture.
Since the eighteenth century, gold medals have bee ...
with the Finnish
relay team at the 1964
European Orienteering Championships in
Le Brassus.
[European Orienteering Championship senior, statistics 1962-1964, 2000-]
(Retrieved on 4 June 2008)
Orienteering
Salmenkylä received a
silver medal
A silver medal in sports and other similar areas involving competition is a medal made of, or plated with, silver awarded to the second-place finisher, or runner-up, of contests or competitions such as the Olympic Games, Commonwealth Games, etc ...
in the
relay at the 1966
World Orienteering Championships with the
Finnish team, and again in 1968.
[World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006](_blank)
(Retrieved on 4 June 2008)
His daughter
Leena Salmenkylä was
World Champion in
relay in 1979.
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.
In August 2015 Salmenkylä was inducted into the
Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame.
See also
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Finnish orienteers
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List of orienteers
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List of orienteering events
References
1932 births
2022 deaths
Sportspeople from Helsinki
Finnish orienteers
Male orienteers
Foot orienteers
World Orienteering Championships medalists
Finnish men's basketball players
Finnish basketball coaches
Basketball referees
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