Finland at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Finland competed at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

Finland at the 1964 Winter Olympics
IOC code	FIN
NOC	Finnish Olympic Committee
Website	sport.fi/olympiakomitea (in Finnish and Swedish)
in Innsbruck
Competitors	52 (46 men, 6 women) in 7 sports
Flag bearers	Veikko Hakulinen, cross-country skiing
Medals Ranked 4th	Gold 3 Silver 4 Bronze 3 Total 10
Winter Olympics appearances (overview)
1924 1928 1932 1936 1948 1952 1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022 2026

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event
Gold	Eero Mäntyranta	Cross-country skiing	Men's 15 km
Gold	Eero Mäntyranta	Cross-country skiing	Men's 30 km (mass start)
Gold	Veikko Kankkonen	Ski jumping	Men's normal hill (K90 individual 70m)
Silver	Väinö Huhtala Kalevi Laurila Eero Mäntyranta Arto Tiainen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 4 × 10 km relay
Silver	Mirja Lehtonen	Cross-country skiing	Women's 5 km
Silver	Veikko Kankkonen	Ski jumping	Men's large hill (K120 individual 90m)
Silver	Kaija Mustonen	Speed skating	Women's 1500m
Bronze	Arto Tiainen	Cross-country skiing	Men's 50 km
Bronze	Mirja Lehtonen Senja Pusula Toini Pöysti	Cross-country skiing	Women's 3 x 5 km relay
Bronze	Kaija Mustonen	Speed skating	Women's 1000m

Alpine skiing

Main article: Alpine skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Athlete	Event	Race
		Time	Rank
Ulf Ekstam	Downhill	2:27.31	26
Raimo Manninen		2:23.94	22
Ulf Ekstam	Giant Slalom	2:01.78	36
Raimo Manninen		1:55.05	17

Men's slalom

Athlete	Qualifying				Final
	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Time 1	Rank	Time 2	Rank	Total	Rank
Ulf Ekstam	57.11	36	58.48	20 QF	DSQ	–	–	–	DSQ	–
Raimo Manninen	56.33	32	55.41	5 QF	1:14.82	22	1:05.45	22	2:20.27	22

Biathlon

Main article: Biathlon at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Time	Misses	Adjusted time 1	Rank
20 km	Esko Marttinen	1'24:50.2	5	1'34:50.2	23
	Veikko Hakulinen	1'19:37.9	6	1'31:37.9	15
	Antti Tyrväinen	1'22:09.0	4	1'30:09.0	13
	Hannu Posti	1'25:16.5	1	1'27:16.5	8

¹ Two minutes added per miss.

Cross-country skiing

Mens 4 × 10 km cross country race, Finnish team

Main article: Cross-country skiing at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
15 km	Eino Huhtala	52:18.2	11
	Kalevi Laurila	51:59.8	9
	Väinö Huhtala	51:45.4	4
	Eero Mäntyranta	50.54.1
30 km	Väinö Huhtala	1'33:38.1	14
	Arto Tiainen	1'33:37.7	13
	Kalevi Laurila	1'32:41.4	6
	Eero Mäntyranta	1'30:50.7
50 km	Kalevi Hämäläinen	2'52:22.3	16
	Lauri Bergqvist	2'52:08.0	15
	Eero Mäntyranta	2'47:47.1	9
	Arto Tiainen	2'45:30.4

Men's 4 × 10 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Väinö Huhtala Arto Tiainen Kalevi Laurila Eero Mäntyranta	2'18:42.4

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
5 km	Senja Pusula	18:45.7	9
	Eeva Ruoppa	18:29.8	8
	Toini Pöysti	18:25.5	5
	Mirja Lehtonen	17:52.9
10 km	Mirja Lehtonen	42:06.9	10
	Eeva Ruoppa	41:58.1	9
	Senja Pusula	41:17.8	6
	Toini Pöysti	41:17.4	5

Women's 3 x 5 km relay

Athletes	Race
	Time	Rank
Senja Pusula Toini Pöysti Mirja Lehtonen	1'02:45.1

Ice hockey

Main article: Ice hockey at the 1964 Winter Olympics

First round

Winners (in bold) qualified for the Group A to play for 1st-8th places. Teams, which lost their qualification matches, played in Group B for 9th-16th places.

Team 1	Score	Team 2
Austria	2–8	Finland

Medal round

Rank	Team	Pld	W	L	T	GF	GA	Pts
1	Soviet Union	7	7	0	0	54	10	14
2	Sweden	7	5	2	0	47	16	10
3	Czechoslovakia	7	5	2	0	38	19	10
4	Canada	7	5	2	0	32	17	10
5	United States	7	2	5	0	29	33	4
6	Finland	7	2	5	0	10	31	4
7	Germany	7	2	5	0	13	49	4
8	Switzerland	7	0	7	0	9	57	0

• Finland 4-0 Switzerland
• Czechoslovakia 4-0 Finland
• Sweden 7-0 Finland
• USSR 10-0 Finland
• Canada 6-2 Finland
• Finland 3-2 USA
• Germany (UTG) 2-1 Finland

Contestants Raimo Kilpiö Juhani Lahtinen Rauno Lehtiö Esko Luostarinen Ilkka Mesikämmen Seppo Nikkilä Kalevi Numminen Lasse Oksanen Jorma Peltonen Heino Pulli Matti Reunamäki Jouni Seistamo Jorma Suokko Juhani Wahlsten Jarmo Wasama Esko Kaonpää

Nordic combined

Main article: Nordic combined at the 1964 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
Raimo Partanen	Individual	59.0	53.0	156.6	29	54:15.9	191.78	16	348.38	26
Esa Klinga		62.5	52.0	173.1	26	55:22.4	179.49	20	352.59	25
Erkki Luiro		65.5	62.5	207.0	14	56:57.3	162.50	27	369.50	22
Raimo Majuri		67.0	59.5	192.7	19	55:44.5	175.52	21	368.22	23

Ski jumping

Main article: Ski jumping at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Athletes performed three jumps, the best two were counted and are shown here.

Athlete	Event	Jump 1		Jump 2		Total
		Distance	Points	Distance	Points	Points	Rank
Antero Immonen	Normal hill	71.5	97.7	72.0	97.6	195.3	31
Veikko Kankkonen		80.0	115.9	79.0	114.0	229.9
Niilo Halonen		75.5	102.8	74.5	100.6	203.4	14
Ensio Hyytiä		73.5	101.5	74.0	100.9	202.4	20
Ensio Hyytiä	Large hill	87.0	101.6	76.5	96.9	198.5	23
Antero Immonen		86.0	98.9	80.0	95.9	194.8	31
Niilo Halonen		88.0	105.8	83.0	100.0	205.8	14
Veikko Kankkonen		95.5	118.9	90.5	110.0	228.9

Speed skating

Main article: Speed skating at the 1964 Winter Olympics

Men

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Toivo Salonen	42.2	23
	Juhani Järvinen	41.9	19
	Pekke Lattunen	41.8	16
	Simo Rinne	41.4	10
1500 m	Seppo Hänninen	2:16.0	23
	Jouko Jokinen	2:15.6	19
	Juhani Järvinen	2:12.4	8
	Jouko Launonen	2:11.9	4
5000 m	Toivo Salonen	8:10.2	21
	Jouko Launonen	8:03.5	18
	Kalervo Hietala	7:58.8	15
10,000 m	Kalervo Hietala	17:12.9	26
	Juhani Järvinen	17:05.0	20
	Jouko Launonen	16:49.8	14

Women

Event	Athlete	Race
		Time	Rank
500 m	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	48.8	16
	Kaija Mustonen	48.0	13
1000 m	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	1:37.6	8
	Kaija Mustonen	1:34.8
1500 m	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	2:30.0	8
	Kaija Mustonen	2:25.5
3000 m	Kaija-Liisa Keskivitikka	5:29.4	10
	Kaija Mustonen	5:24.3	5

References

• Official Olympic Reports
• International Olympic Committee results database
• Olympic Winter Games 1964, full results by sports-reference.com