Kalevi Laitinen (gymnast)
Appearance
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Olympic Games | ||
1948 London | Team | |
1952 Helsinki | Team |
Kalevi Johannes Laitinen (19 May 1918 – 6 January 1997) was a Finnish gymnast and Olympic champion.
He was born and died in Kotka.
Laitinen competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London where he received a gold medal in team combined exercises.[1] At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki he received a bronze medal in team combined exercises with the Finnish team.
References
[edit]- ^ "1948 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)
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- 1918 births
- 1997 deaths
- Sportspeople from Kotka
- Finnish male artistic gymnasts
- Olympic gymnasts for Finland
- Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Finland
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- 20th-century Finnish people
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