Lennart Viitala
Appearance
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Born | 8 November 1921 Kankaanpää, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 24 February 1966 (aged 45) Kangasala, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 165 cm (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 52–60 kg (115–132 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Vaasan Toverit TUL | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Vilho Lennart "Lenni" Viitala (8 November 1921 – 24 February 1966) was a Finnish flyweight wrestler who won gold medals in freestyle wrestling at the 1946 European Athletics Championships and 1948 Olympics.[1] Domestically Viitala won five freestyle (1946–49, 1956) and one Greco-Roman title (1953). He was a carpenter by profession.[2][3]
References
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- ^ Viitala, Lennart Vilho (FIN). iat.uni-leipzig.de
- ^ Lenni Viitala. sports-reference
- ^ Viitala, Lennart (Lenni). tulpaini.fi
Categories:
- 1921 births
- 1966 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for Finland
- Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Finnish male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for Finland
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- European Wrestling Championships medalists
- People from Kankaanpää
- Sportspeople from Satakunta
- 20th-century Finnish sportsmen
- Finnish Olympic medalist stubs
- Finnish sport wrestler stubs