Reima Untamo Salonen (born November 19, 1955 in Taivassalo, Southwest Finland) is a retired race walker from

Finland Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of Bo ...

, known for winning the gold medal in the men's 50 km Walk event at the 1982 European Championships in

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. A former

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holder, he represented his native country in three

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(1980, 1984 and 1988). He was the bronze medallist at the 1976 World Championships in Athletics – a one-off 50 km walk competition to compensate for the dropping of the event at the

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.IAAF Statistics Book Moscow 2013
(pg. 179). IAAF/ AFTS (2013). Edited by Mark Butler. Retrieved on 2013-09-09.

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* * 1955 births Living people People from Taivassalo Finnish male racewalkers Athletes (track and field) at the 1980 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1984 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes of Finland World record setters in athletics (track and field) World Athletics Championships medalists European Athletics Championships medalists Sportspeople from Southwest Finland {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub