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Finnish Gymnasts: Finnish Aerobic Gymnasts, Finnish Artistic Gymnasts, Olympic Gymnasts of Finland, Heikki Savolainen, Tiia Piili
Paperback. Books LLC 2010-09-15.
ISBN 9781157832454
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Chapters: Finnish Aerobic Gymnasts, Finnish Artistic Gymnasts, Olympic Gymnasts of Finland, Heikki Savolainen, Tiia Piili, Karl Magnus Wegelius, Paavo Aaltonen, Elin Kallio, Aleksanteri Saarvala, Veikko Huhtanen, Veli Nieminen, Aarne Salovaara, Mauri Nyberg-Noroma, Eino Forsström, Eugen Ekman, Einari Teräsvirta, Kalevi Laitinen, Olavi Rove, Kaarlo Soinio, Kaarlo Ekholm, Lauri Tanner, Väinö Tiiri, Tauno Ilmoniemi, Otto Granström, Jalmari Kivenheimo, Kaarlo Kustaa Paasia, Matti Markkanen, Annamari Maaranen, Kaarlo Vasama, Klaus Suomela, Heikki Sammallahti, Kaarlo Mikkolainen, Mikko Hyvärinen, Eero Hyvärinen, Arno Saarinen, Arvi Pohjanpää, Heikki Lehmusto, Heikki Riipinen, Iivari Kyykoski, Kaarlo Vähämäki, Elis Sipilä, Einar Werner Sahlstein, Aarne Pelkonen, Viktor Smeds, Aarne Pohjonen, Eino Saastamoinen, John Lindroth, Kurt Enoch Stenberg, Edvard Linna, Hannes Sirola, Karl Sandelin, Ilmari Keinänen, Eino Railio, Ilmari Pernaja, Karl Lund, Yrjö Linko, Arvid Rydman, Johan Kemp. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 120. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Heikki Ilmari Savolainen (September 28, 1907 November 29, 1997) was one of the most successful Finnish gymnasts and a two-time Olympic winner. Savolainen's career as a top gymnast lasted for six Summer Olympics. At Amsterdam in 1928 he won bronze on pommel horse, the first-ever medal in gymnastics for Finland. Winning his last medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he was the oldest gymnastics medalist ever at 44 years old. In the opening ceremony of the same Olympics, he was the one to deliver the Olympic Oath. Together with Harri Kirvesniemi, Alexei Nemov, and Franziska van Almsick, Savolainen won a record-breaking six bronze medals. In the 1932 horizontal bar event Savolainen and his teammate Einari Teräsvirta had the same score, ...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=5222634
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