Rauno Miettinen
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's nordic combined | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Silver | 1972 Sapporo | Individual | |
| World Championships | |||
| Silver | 1978 Lahti | Individual | |
| Silver | 1982 Oslo | 3 x 10 km team | |
| Silver | 1984 Rovaniemi | 3 x 10 km team | |
Rauno Miettinen (born May 25, 1949 in Kuopio) is a former Finnish Nordic combined skier. He earned a silver in the individual event at the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo.
Miettinen also won three Nordic combined silver medals in the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships (Individual: 1978, 3 x 10 km team: 1982 (tied with Norway), 1984).
His biggest success as a Nordic combined athlete was at the Holmenkollen ski festival, where he won the event five times (1969, 1971-1973, 1978). Miettinen is one of only four people to win the Holmenkollen Nordic combined five times (the others being Lauritz Bergendahl, Johan Grøttumsbråten, and Bjarte Engen Vik).
Miettinen was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1972 (shared with Magne Myrmo).
[edit] External links
- FIS-Ski: Rauno Miettinen - statistics
- Holmenkollen medalists - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
- Holmenkollen winners since 1892 - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file (Norwegian)
| Preceded by Marjatta Kajosmaa, Berit Mørdre Lammedal, & Reidar Hjermstad |
Holmenkollen medal with Magne Myrmo 1972 |
Succeeded by Einar Bergsland, Ingolf Mork, & Franz Keller |
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Categories: 1949 births | Nordic combined skiers at the 1972 Winter Olympics | Nordic combined skiers at the 1976 Winter Olympics | Nordic combined skiers at the 1984 Winter Olympics | Finnish Nordic combined skiers | Holmenkollen medalists | Holmenkollen winners | Living people | Olympic silver medalists for Finland | Olympic Nordic combined skiers of Finland | People from Kuopio | Finnish winter sports biography stubs
