Paavo Vierto

Paavo Vierto
nation	Finland
birthday	August 29, 1915
place of birth	Lehtimäki ,  Finland
date of death	December 9, 1941
Place of death	Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic
Career

Paavo Vierto (born August 29, 1915 in Lehtimäki , † December 9, 1941 in Ukraine ) was a Finnish ski jumper .

At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1938 , he reached 19th place on the normal hill in jumping from the normal hill with jumps on 64 and 63.5 meters. In 1941 he became world champion in ski jumping at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo . The title has no official status as the results were canceled by the FIS in 1946 .

Vierto fought in the Finnish volunteer battalion of the Waffen SS during World War II . He fell in March 1941 when the Red Army attacked a 200-man Finnish military patrol in Ukraine .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Lahti 1938 . www.lahdenmuseot.fi. Retrieved July 20, 2010.
2. ↑ fis-ski.com ( Memento of the original from January 11, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. : History of the World Ski Championships (English, accessed April 10, 2009) 
3. ↑ finnica.fi : Vierto's Sieg (Finnish, accessed April 10, 2009)
4. ^ Information Bulletin, by Heliconia Society International, Scripta Technica, inc, American Geophysical Union, United Firefighters' Union Published by American Geophysical Union, 1966, University of Michigan