Kaija Mustonen

Kaija Mustonen
	Mustonen at the 1968 Olympics
Personal information
Born	4 August 1941 (age 83); Helsinki, Finland
Height	166 cm (5 ft 5 in)
Weight	52–54 kg (115–119 lb)
Sport
Sport	Speed skating
Club	Helsingin Luistinkiitäjät, Helsinki
Medal record
Representing Finland
Women's speed skating
Olympic Games
World Championships

Kaija Marja Mustonen (born 4 August 1941 in Helsinki) is a former speed skater from Finland.

After winning silver and bronze at the 1964 Winter Olympics of Innsbruck, Mustonen went on to win gold and silver at the 1968 Winter Olympics of Grenoble. This was the only Finnish gold medal at those games and the last Olympic gold for Finland in speed skating up to at least 2015. Her Olympic performance was acknowledged by naming her Finnish female athlete of the year in 1964 and 1968.^[1]

She competed in ten World Allround Championships from 1958 to 1968 (every year except 1959), but never won a medal in the final classification, a fourth place in 1964 being her best result. She did win four distance medals though, all bronze, in the days when there was not yet a separate world championship for each distance. Nationally, she won seven all-around titles between 1962 and 1968.^[1]

Personal records

**Personal records**
Distance	Time	Place	Date
500 m	45.6	Inzell	2 Mar 1968
1,000 m	1:31.5	Inzell	10 Mar 1968
1,500 m	2:20.1	Inzell	2 Mar 1968
3,000 m	5:00.7	Inzell	10 Mar 1968
Mini combination	190.367	Inzell	2/3 Mar 1968

**Best times in Finland**
Distance	Time	Place	Date
500 m	46.8	Rovaniemi	21 Mar 1968
1,000 m	1:35.0	Rovaniemi	22 Mar 1968
1,500 m	2:28.8	Helsinki-Kallio	27 Feb 1968
3,000 m	5:14.8	Helsinki-Pirkkola	28 Jan 1968
Mini combination	197.016	Rovaniemi	22/23 Mar 1968

References

^ ^a ^b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kaija Mustonen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.