Juha Iisakki Mieto is a Finnish former cross country skier.
Education
He finished second in this event in 1980 in the closest-ever margin of victory in Olympic cross-country skiing, 0.01 seconds, which led the International Ski Federation (FIS) to round all of their times to the nearest 1/10 second in future competitions.
Career
He also placed fourth three times, losing the 15 km bronze medal in 1972 by 0.06 seconds. Mieto was selected as the Finnish flag bearer at the 1972 Winter Olympics. After retiring from competitions in 1984 Mieto worked in public relations for several organizations, including Nordea Bank, Kuortane Sports Resort and World Vision.
In the 2007 Finnish parliament elections he was a Centre Party candidate in Vaasa constituency.
He was elected with 13,768 votes, which was the seventh best result in Finland that year.