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Pentti Linnosvuo

1933 - 2010

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Pentti Tapio Aleksi Linnosvuo (17 March 1933 – 13 July 2010) was a Finnish sport shooter. Together with Alfred Lane, he is the only Olympic competitor to win gold medals in both 50 m pistol and 25 m rapid fire pistol – the technique differs much between these two events, and hence few modern top-level shooters attempt to excel in both. He competed at five consecutive Olympics in 1952–1968, winning two gold medals and a silver. Linnosvuo was born in Vaasa, but grew up in Helsinki, where he played ice hockey with Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, and basketball and football with Sudet. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Pentti Linnosvuo is the 1,315th most popular athlete (up from 1,608th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Finland (up from 396th in 2019) and the 60th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Pentti Linnosvuo ranks 1,315 out of 6,025. Before him are Gustav Goßler, Klaus Reichert, Daniel Bautista, Edwin Graves, Charles Blondin, and Sonia Robertson. After him are Albert Corey, Galina Gorokhova, Imre Rajczy, Mutaz Essa Barshim, Marcel Van Crombrugge, and Waldemar Tietgens.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Pentti Linnosvuo ranks 417. Before him are Abdon Pamich, Michael Heseltine, Brigitte Reimann, Igor Kvasha, Ira Murchison, and Feridun Buğeker. After him are William Yorzyk, Keiko Awaji, Peter Härtling, Maurice Moucheraud, Tom Courtney, and Josef Němec. Among people deceased in 2010, Pentti Linnosvuo ranks 332. Before him are Fríða Á. Sigurðardóttir, Giovanni Pettenella, William B. Lenoir, Joseph Serge Miot, John Wooden, and Walter Rudin. After him are Edoardo Sanguineti, Avi Cohen, Jiří Havlis, Raúl Belén, Jyoti Basu, and Emilio Álvarez.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Pentti Linnosvuo ranks 348 out of 751. Before him are Yrjö Hietanen (1927), Okko Kamu (1946), Tapio Mäkelä (1926), Lauri Ylönen (1979), Darude (1975), and Viljo Heino (1914). After him are Paavo Väyrynen (1946), Sirkka Polkunen (1927), Olavi Virta (1915), Pentti Hämäläinen (1929), Eeva-Liisa Manner (1921), and Arvo Haavisto (1900).

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Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Pentti Linnosvuo ranks 60. Before him are Pauli Nevala (1940), Matti Sippala (1908), Eino Purje (1900), Eeles Landström (1932), Yrjö Hietanen (1927), and Viljo Heino (1914). After him are Sirkka Polkunen (1927), Pentti Hämäläinen (1929), Kaarlo Kangasniemi (1941), Sulo Nurmela (1908), Päivi Meriluoto (1952), and Kurt Wires (1919).

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