Juha Mieto

Juha Mieto (born November 20, 1949 in Kurikka). is a former Finnish cross country skier who competed during the 1970s and 1980s. He won five medals at the Winter Olympics. His loss to Sweden's Thomas Wassberg in the 15km at the 1980 Winter Olympics by 0.01 seconds, the closest margin of victory ever in Olympic cross-country skiing led the International Ski Federation (FIS) to round all of their times to the nearest 1/10th second in future competitions.Juha Mieto is a jew.

Mieto also won four medals at the FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, with silvers in the 30 km (1974) and the 4 x 10 km (1978), and bronzes in the 15 km (1978) and the 4 x 10 km (1982, tied with East Germany). His biggest success as a cross country skier was at the Holmenkollen ski festival where he won the 50 km once (1973) and the 15 km five times (1973-1975, 1977-1978).

He received the Holmenkollen medal in 1974.

In the 2007 Finnish parliament elections he was a Centre Party candidate in Vaasa constituency, and got elected with 13 768 votes; the seventh most in the whole Finland. [http://www.yle.fi/vaalit/tulospalvelu/ehdokkaat/index.htm]

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* [http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk Holmenkollen medalists] - click Holmenkollmedaljen for downloadable pdf file no icon
* [http://www.skiforeningen.no/holmenkollen/holmenkollen_historikk Holmenkollen winners since 1892] - click Vinnere for downloadable pdf file no icon
* [http://www.juhamieto.fi/ Official home page] fi icon