Paavo Aaltonen
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Full name | Paavo Johannes Aaltonen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1919-12-11)11 December 1919 Kemi, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 9 September 1962(1962-09-09) (aged 42) Sipoo, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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
- ^ "Paavo Aaltonen". Olympedia. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
- ^ "Paavo Johannes Aaltonen". Olympics. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 7 July 2022.
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- 1896:
Louis Zutter (SUI)
- 1904:
Anton Heida (USA)
- 1924:
Josef Wilhelm (SUI)
- 1928:
Hermann Hänggi (SUI)
- 1932:
István Pelle (HUN)
- 1936:
Konrad Frey (GER)
- 1948:
Paavo Aaltonen (FIN)
1948Veikko Huhtanen (FIN)
1948Heikki Savolainen (FIN)
- 1952:
Viktor Chukarin (URS)
- 1956:
Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1960:
Boris Shakhlin (URS)
1960Eugen Ekman (FIN)
- 1964:
Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1968:
Miroslav Cerar (YUG)
- 1972:
Viktor Klimenko (URS)
- 1976:
Zoltán Magyar (HUN)
- 1980:
Zoltán Magyar (HUN)
- 1984:
Li Ning (CHN)
1984Peter Vidmar (USA)
- 1988:
Zsolt Borkai (HUN)
1988Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
1988Lubomir Geraskov (BUL)
- 1992:
Vitaly Scherbo (EUN)
1992Pae Gil-su (PRK)
- 1996:
Li Donghua (SUI)
- 2000:
Marius Urzică (ROU)
- 2004:
Teng Haibin (CHN)
- 2008:
Xiao Qin (CHN)
- 2012:
Krisztián Berki (HUN)
- 2016:
Max Whitlock (GBR)
- 2020:
Max Whitlock (GBR)
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