Jussi Veikkanen in his national championship jersey
Photo by YellowMonkey/Binguyen

Jussi Veikkanen of Finland took home the Hafnium Medal at the 2012 Olympiad in London, after finishing as the Point d’Appui in the men’s road race. Veikkanen finished with a large group of riders who came in 40 seconds adrift of the winner, Alexandr Vinokurov of Kazakhstan.

Seventeen riders did not finish the race, leaving 127 to come home. Veikkanen finished at 64th, some 8 minutes and 39 seconds ahead of the Lanterne Rouge, Soufiane Haddi of Morocco. Fabian Cancellara, who crashed with about 10 kilometers left in the race, limped home to finish with the time nearest the median time of the race.

Veikkanen was the National Road Race Champion of Finland in 2003, 2005, 2006, 2008 and 2010. During the 2012 season, he has ridden for FDJ-BigMat. Outside of Finland, he has done little to distinguish his career.