Juhani Salmenkylä

Juhani Salmenkylä

Medal record
Men's orienteering
Representing  Finland
World Championships
	1966 Fiskars	Relay
	1968 Linköping	Relay
European Championships
	1964 Le Brassus	Relay

Photograph of the Finnish athlete Juhani Salmenkylä (1932–2022) and the Swedish athlete Bertil Norman

Juhani Salmenkylä (8 March 1932 – 4 May 2022)^[1] was a Finnish orienteering competitor and European champion, basketball player, coach, referee and contributor. He was born in Helsinki. In orienteering he won a gold medal with the Finnish relay team at the 1964 European Orienteering Championships in Le Brassus.^[2]

Orienteering

Salmenkylä received a silver medal in the relay at the 1966 World Orienteering Championships with the Finnish team, and again in 1968.^[3]

His daughter Leena Salmenkylä was World Champion in relay in 1979.^[4]

He won the Jukola relay seven times, winning first at the second edition in 1950 at the age of 18 and winning last in 1970 at the age of 38.^[5] He also won the second edition of O-Ringen in 1966.

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.^[6][7]

In August 2015 Salmenkylä was inducted into the Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame.^[8]

See also

• Finnish orienteers
• List of orienteers
• List of orienteering events

References

1. "Monipuolinen urheilumies Juhani Salmenkylä on kuollut". Yle Urheilu. Helsinki: Yleisradio Oy. 4 May 2022. Retrieved 4 May 2022.
2. European Orienteering Championship senior, statistics 1962-1964, 2000- Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 4 June 2008)
3. World Orienteering Championship, senior statistics 1966-2006 Archived 23 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine (Retrieved on 4 June 2008)
4. "Juhani Salmenkylä. Who is Who". WMOC 2008 Portugal. Archived from the original on 21 October 2008. Retrieved 14 January 2009.
5. "Jukola Relay winners 1949-". Jukola.com. Retrieved 22 August 2024.
6. "Juhani Salmenkylä". Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 29 August 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
7. "Juhani Salmenkylä". baskethotel.com. Archived from the original on 23 September 2015. Retrieved 29 August 2015.
8. "Airas, Finneman, Pounds ja Salmenkylä Suomi-koriksen Hall of Fameen". Finnish Basketball Association. Retrieved 29 August 2015.