Eero Lehtonen
Olympic athlete
1898 – 1959
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Who was Eero Lehtonen?
Eero Reino Lehtonen was a Finnish pentathlete. He won the Olympic gold at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. After pentathlon was removed from the Olympic programme for 1928, Lehtonen quit his career. His multi-event legacy still survived as Finnish decathletes, Paavo Yrjölä and Akilles Järvinen, took a double victory at the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1984, Lehtonen got his own bronze statue at the sports park in Mikkeli, his home town.
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- Born
- Apr 21, 1898
Mikkeli - Also known as
- Eero Reino Lehtonen
- Nationality
- Finland
- Lived in
- Mikkeli
- Died
- Nov 9, 1959
Helsinki
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on July 23, 2013
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