Kaarlo Maaninka

Kaarlo Hannes Maaninka is a Finnish former long-distance runner who won a silver medal in the 10,000 metres and a bronze medal in the 5,000 metres at the 1980 Moscow Olympics. He later admitted that he had used blood transfusions at the 1980 Olympics, though this was not against the rules at that time.

25 December 1953

Born on the same birth day (25 December): Adolf Windaus • Alastair Cook • Barry Goldberg • Christina of Saxony • Eric Gordon • Glenn McCarthy • Jean-Joseph de Mondonville • Joãozinho (footballer, born 1988) • Laurent Bonnart • Leo Kubiak • Lincoln Verduga Loor • Mac Powell • Noel Picard • Noël Coypel • Peter Boardman • Rob Edwards (footballer, born 1982) • Sadiq al-Mahdi • Sam Strahan • Theodor Innitzer

Born in the same month (December 1953): Alan Rusbridger • András Schiff • Ben Bernanke • Cornelis de Bondt • Gerrit W. Gong • Jane Badler • Jean-Marie Pfaff • Kevin Beattie • Leonel Fernández • René Eespere • Roy Firestone • Stanley Williams