Martti Vainio

Quick Facts

Full Name	Martti Vainio
Occupation	Runner
Date Of Birth	Dec 30, 1950(1950-12-30)
Age	74
Birthplace	Vehkalahti
Country	Finland
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Martti Vainio Biography

Martti Vainio is one of the most popular and richest Runner who was born on December 30, 1950 in Vehkalahti, Finland. Finnish long- distance runner who was forced to give up the Olympic medal after he was found to be positive for steroids in 1984.

He took part at the 1984 Olympics in which the runner He competed in the 1984 Olympics where runner Carl Lewis made his first Olympic appearance. made his first Olympic appearance.

Martti Vainio started systematic training at the age of 20 in the autumn of 1971 with his coach Aulis Potinkara. He received his first national championships medal in 1974 when he finished third in 5000 metres after Seppo Tuominen and Rune Holmén. In the same year he ran his first 10,000 m race with the result 29:09.6. He broke the 29-minutes barrier for the first time in

1976. The same year he was second at the Finnish Championships in Athletics in 10,000 metres after Pekka Päivärinta and was selected to his first Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. However, he did not qualify for the 10,000 metres final, finishing as the second fastest runner to be eliminated from the final. He won his first Finnish Championship in 1977 when he beat Kaarlo Maaninka by 0.9 seconds in 10,000 metres.

During his career (1974–91) Vainio competed 80 times in 10,000 metres. He ran 68 times below the 29-minute barrier, 24 times below 28:10, and 10 times below 28 minutes.

He has two children: Mika and Minna and Eila, his partner. Eila.

Martti Vainio Net Worth

Martti Vainio is one of the richest Runner from Finland. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Martti Vainio 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He was the first athlete to win a gold medal in the 10,000-meter race at the 1998 European Championships.

He was able to break the 29 minute barrier in 68 of his 80 10,000-meter races.

Martti Sakari Vainio (born 30 December 1950) is a Finnish former long-distance runner. In Finland he is recognized as the last of the great runners of the famous “V-line”, the previous ones being Juha Väätäinen, Lasse Virén, and Pekka Vasala. Each of them won at least one gold medal either at the Summer Olympics or the European Athletics Championships in the 1970s. Vainio’s accomplishments are tarnished though, for testing positive for PEDs on at least two occasions. One of those events was the 1984 Olympic Games where he was disqualified and stripped of his medal and later suspended from sport.

Height, Weight & Body Measurements

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Despite the disappointment of the Olympics, Vainio returned to the top of the world in 1981 in the 10,000 metres. He won the Bislett Games in Oslo in 27:45.50 and represented Europe at the 1981 IAAF World Cup in Rome, finishing fifth running a 27:48.62. At the Track & Field News annual world ranking he was fourth after Werner Schildhauer, Geoff Smith, and Mohamed Kedir.

Facts & Trivia

Martti Ranked on the list of most popular Runner. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Finland. Martti Vainio celebrates birthday on December 30 of every year.

In the following year 1982, Vainio succeeded again at the European Championships in Athens, where he won a bronze medal behind Alberto Cova and Werner Schildhauer in 10,000 metres running a 27:42.51. He competed in 5,000 metres as well and finished 8th. At the Track & Field News annual world ranking, Vainio end of year raking was seventh in 10,000 metres.

Top Facts about Martti Vainio

1. Martti Vainio was a Finnish long-distance runner.
2. He won the bronze medal in the 10,000 meters at the 1984 Olympics.
3. Vainio set a world record for the 25,000 meters in 1985.
4. He also won two silver medals at the World Cross Country Championships.
5. Vainio died tragically in a car accident in 1999 at age 38.