Reima Salonen

Reima Salonen
Medal record
Men's athletics
Representing  Finland
European Championships
1982 Athens 50 km walk

Reima Untamo Salonen (born November 19, 1955, in Taivassalo, Southwest Finland) is a retired race walker from Finland, known for winning the gold medal in the men's 50 km Walk event at the 1982 European Championships in Athens, Greece. A former world record holder, he represented his native country in three Summer Olympics (1980, 1984 and 1988).

He was the bronze medalist at the 1976 World Championships in Athletics – a one-off 50 km walk competition to compensate for the dropping of the event at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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