1980’s
1980 Young Canadian-Indian, jumping without glasses, Steve Collins jumped amazing hill record, 124 meters.
1981 Jari Puikkonen won both individual competitions. What made these competitions special was, that they were held in K64 hill.
1982 New, modern track&field stadium was built. This made Lahti Ski stadium year-around meetingpoint for sporting citizens.
1985 The real Lahti Ski, men 50 km, was taken out from the programme. After that, this traditional event has taken place twice, 1989 and 2001, in World Ski Championships.
1986 Finnish popband Dingo, played at the games. Band had over 13.000 spectators on Saturday-evening at the Ski-restaurant
1988 Matti Nykänen, wins nr 6 and 7 at the games. He won both competitions. He is still the most succesful athlete in the history of Lahti Ski Games in amount of wins.
1989 World Ski Championships gatehered 450 000 spectators in 10 days. This is still the record of Lahti Ski Games.