Mika Myllylä
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1998 Nagano | 30 km | |
| Silver | 1994 Lillehammer | 50 km | |
| Bronze | 1994 Lillehammer | 30 km | |
| Bronze | 1994 Lillehammer | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1998 Nagano | 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1998 Nagano | 4 x 10 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1997 Trondheim | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1999 Ramsau | 10 km | |
| Gold | 1999 Ramsau | 30 km | |
| Gold | 1999 Ramsau | 50 km | |
| Silver | 1997 Trondheim | 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit | |
| Silver | 1997 Trondheim | 4 x 10 km | |
| Silver | 1999 Ramsau | 10 km + 15 km combined pursuit | |
| Bronze | 1995 Thunder Bay | 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1997 Trondheim | 10 km | |
| Disqualified | 2001 Lahti | 4 x 10 km | |
Mika Myllylä (born September 12, 1969 in Haapajärvi). is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed from 1992 to 2005. He won six medals at the Winter Olympics, earning one gold (1998: 30 km), one silver (1994: 50 km), and four bronzes (1994: 30 km, 4 x 10 km; 1998: 10 km, 4 x 10 km).
Myllylä also won a total of nine medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, winning four golds (1997: 50 km, 1999: 10 km, 30 km, 50 km), three silvers (10 km + 15 km combined pursuit: 1997, 1999; 4 x 10 km relay: 1997), and two bronzes (10 km: 1995, 1997).
He was also involved in the 2001 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships doping scandal that would affect five other Finnish skiers for taking hydroyethyl starch (HES), a blood plasma expander. Myllylä would receive a two year suspension from the FIS as a result.
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| Olympic champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing |
| 1956: Veikko Hakulinen | 1960: Sixten Jernberg | 1964: Eero Mäntyranta | 1968: Franco Nones | 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1976: Sergey Savelyev | 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1988: Alexey Prokourorov | 1992: Vegard Ulvang | 1994: Thomas Alsgaard | 1998: Mika Myllylä | 2002: Christian Hoffmann |
| World champions in men's 10 km cross country |
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| 1991: Terje Langli | 1993: Sture Sivertsen | 1995: Vladimir Smirnov | 1997: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1999: Mika Myllylä |
| World champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing |
| 1926: Matti Raivio | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1962: Eero Mäntyranta | 1966: Eero Mäntyranta | 1970: Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1974: Thomas Magnusson | 1978: Sergey Savelyev | 1982: Thomas Eriksson | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Thomas Wassberg | 1989: Vladimir Smirnov | 1991: Gunde Svan | 1993: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1995: Vladimir Smirnov | 1997: Alexey Prokourorov | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Andrus Veerpalu | 2003: Thomas Alsgaard |
| World champions in men's 50 km cross country |
| 1925: Frantisek Donth | 1926: Matti Raivio | 1927: John Lindgren | 1929: Anselm Knuutila | 1930: Sven Utterström | 1931: Ole Stensen | 1933: Veli Saarinen | 1934: Elis Wiklund | 1935: Nils-Joel Englund | 1937: Pekka Niemi | 1938: Kalle Jalkanen | 1939: Lars Bergendahl | 1950: Gunnar Eriksson | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Sixten Jernberg | 1962: Sixten Jernberg | 1966: Gjermund Eggen | 1970: Kalevi Oikarainen | 1974: Gerhard Grimmer | 1978: Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1982: Thomas Wassberg | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Maurilio De Zolt | 1989: Gunde Svan | 1991: Torgny Mogren | 1993: Torgny Mogren | 1995: Silvio Fauner | 1997: Mika Myllylä | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Johann Mühlegg | 2003: Martin Koukal | 2005: Frode Estil |
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