Journalist legend Juhani Melart is gone

Known sports reporter Juhani “You-Me” Mel art has died at the age of 91.

He died of a long illness on November 24 in Helsinki.

Melart was born on January 19, 1933.

Melart was primarily known as a journalist specializing in motor sports. He wrote, among other things To the new Finland and Speed ​​to the World.

In addition, he wrote books about motor sports.

In 1982, Melart was chosen Sports Journalist of the Year and in 2004 he received the Olli Award of the Finnish Newspaper Association.

The Association of Auto- and Transport Suppliers published an obituary about the industry’s respected journalist.

“The journalist and writer known by his nickname and nickname Ju-Me specialized in motor sports already in the late 1950s. Writing about passenger cars came into the picture in the 1960s and athletics in the 1970s. Melart, who started assisting the magazine in 1965, the founding year of Vauht Maailma, will still be writing columns for the magazine at the age of 90 in 2023,” wrote the journalist-photographer Marko Mäkinen Auto and transport suppliers to AuLi ry’s website.

“Melart knew how to use numerical and factual information in his texts in an exceptional way. Accurate factual information was always found behind the claims that appeared in his articles and columns. His text was informative and lively,” Mäkinen recalled.