Voitto Hellstén
Voitto Hellsten ( Voitto Valdemar Hellsten; * February 15, 1932 in Pertteli, † December 7, 1998 in Turku ) was a Finnish sprinter.
Career
1952 joined Voitto Hellsten at the Olympic Games in Helsinki in three disciplines. In the 100 -meter run, he left in the run, and in the 200 -meter run, he reached the quarter-finals. In the 4 x 100 - meter relay of the competition was finished after the lead for the Finnish team.
As a result Voitto started Hellsten at international championships in the 400 -meter run. At the European Athletics Championships in Berne in 1954 he ran in the final 47.0 s Finnish record and won silver behind the Russians Ardalion Ignatiev, who became European Champion in 46.6 s. With the Finnish 4-by- 400 - meter relay in occupation Ragnar Graeffe, Sven Oswald Mildh, Rolf back and him as the final runners won Voitto Hellsten in 3:11,4 min bronze behind the squadrons from France and the Federal Republic of Germany.
At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 were close behind the top four in the 400 -meter final. It won the American Charles Jenkins in 46.7 s before Karl -Friedrich Haas of the Federal Republic of Germany in 46.8 s behind Ignatiev and brightest were in 47.0 s after the goal judge either of them looked forward, had the photo finish to decide. After that Haas was in 47.12 s much scarcer in front of the other two, even after the s electronic measurement amounted to 47.15 par. Both received a bronze medal by jury decision. The Finnish 4-by- 400-meter relay race difference in Melbourne in the flow.
1958 at the European Championships in Stockholm different Hellsten in its interim run in 47.2 s as a third party concise. In the other two intermediate runs, its time for the collection would have been enough in the final. The Finnish relay just missed the final.
At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 Hellsten was eliminated both in single as well as in the relay in the flow.
Hellsten was Finnish champion in the 100 - meter race from 1952 to 1954, in the 200 -meter run in 1952, and from 1954 to 1957 and in the 400 -meter run of 1955 until 1958.
Voitto Hellsten was 1.69 m and weighed 64 kg in his playing days. From 1962 to 1970 he was a member of the Finnish Parliament for the Social Democratic Party of Finland.