Paavo Aaltonen
Appearance
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Full name | Paavo Johannes Aaltonen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Kemi, Finland | 11 December 1919|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 September 1962 Sipoo, Finland | (aged 42)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Paavo Johannes Aaltonen (11 December 1919 – 9 September 1962)[1] was a Finnish artistic gymnast and a three-time Olympic champion. At the 1948 Summer Olympics, he won four medals, of which three were gold, including a three-way tie for gold in the pommel horse with teammates Veikko Huhtanen and Heikki Savolainen. He also competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, winning a team bronze for a total of five Olympic medals during his career. At the 1950 World Championships, Aaltonen won the gold medal on the horizontal bar and the team silver medal.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "Paavo Aaltonen". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ "Paavo Johannes Aaltonen". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
External links
[edit]- Paavo Aaltonen at Olympedia
- Paavo Aaltonen at Olympics.com
- Paavo Aaltonen at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
Categories:
- 1919 births
- 1962 deaths
- Sportspeople from Kemi
- Finnish male artistic gymnasts
- Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gymnasts for Finland
- Olympic gold medalists for Finland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Finnish people
- Finnish Olympic medalist stubs
- Finnish artistic gymnast stubs