Name Juhani Salmenkyla | ||
Juhani Salmenkylä (born March 8, 1932 in Helsinki) is a Finnish retired orienteering competitor and European champion, basketball player, coach, referee and contributor. In orienteering he won a gold medal with the Finnish relay team at the 1964 European Orienteering Championships in Le Brassus.
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Orienteering
He received a silver medal in the relay at the 1966 World Orienteering Championships with the Finnish team, and again in 1968.
His daughter Leena Salmenkylä — World Champion in relay 1979.
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.
In August 2015 Salmenkylä was inducted into the Finnish Basketball Hall of Fame.