Kalevi Laitinen (gymnast)
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| Full name | Kalevi Johannes Laitinen | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1918 Kotka, Finland | |||||||||||||||||
| Died | 6 January 1997 (aged 78) Kotka, Finland | |||||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | |||||||||||||||||
Country represented |  Finland | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
- ↑ "1948 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Gymnastics" Archived 2007-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 3, 2008)
External links
- Kalevi Laitinen at Olympics.com
- Kalevi Laitinen at the Finnish Olympic Committee (in Finnish)
- Kalevi Laitinen at Olympedia
- Kalevi Laitinen at InterSportStats
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Categories:
- 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 sportsmen
- Finnish artistic gymnast stubs
- Finnish Olympic medalist stubs