Paavo Aaltonen
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Full name | Paavo Johannes Aaltonen | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Country represented | Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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.
External links
- Paavo Aaltonen at Olympedia
- Paavo Aaltonen at Olympics.com
- Paavo Aaltonen at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
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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)
1948 Veikko Huhtanen (FIN)
1948 Heikki Savolainen (FIN) - 1952: Viktor Chukarin (URS)
- 1956: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
- 1960: Boris Shakhlin (URS)
1960 Eugen 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)
1984 Peter Vidmar (USA) - 1988: Zsolt Borkai (HUN)
1988 Dmitry Bilozerchev (URS)
1988 Lubomir Geraskov (BUL) - 1992: Vitaly Scherbo (EUN)
1992 Pae 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)
- 2024: Rhys McClenaghan (IRL)
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