Martti Vainio

Martti Olavi Vainio is a Finnish former long-distance runner. In Finland he is recognized as the last of the great runners of the famous "V-line", the previous ones being Juha Väätäinen, Lasse Virén, and Pekka Vasala. Each of them won at least one gold medal either at the Summer Olympics or the European Athletics Championships in the 1970s. Vainio's accomplishments are tarnished though, for testing positive for PEDs on at least two occasions. One of those events was the 1984 Olympic Games where he was disqualified and stripped of his medal and later suspended from sport.

30 December 1950

Born on the same birth date (30 December 1950): Bjarne Stroustrup • Lewis Shiner • Timothy Mo

Born on the same birth day (30 December): Abu Uthman Sa'id ibn Hakam al-Qurashi • André Messager • Daniel Sunjata • David Willcocks • Doug Allder • Gianni Zuiverloon • Heidi Fleiss • Jeff Ward (actor) • Louis-Jean-François Lagrenée • Nick Rose (runner) • Paul Stookey • Seymour Melman • Skeeter Davis • Vincenzo da Filicaja • Ōzutsu Man'emon

Born in the same month (December 1950): Arturo Márquez • Benjamin Stora • Bjarne Stroustrup • Cheryl Womack • Eleanor J. Hill • Gillian Armstrong • Hiroshi Ikushima • Jeffrey Katzenberg • Jon Polito • Karl Rove • Lillebjørn Nilsen • Michael C. Burgess • Rainer Maria Latzke • Rick Baker • Sylvester James Gates