Eero Lehtonen

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Eero Lehtonen

Eero Reino Lehtonen (born April 21, 1898 in Mikkeli , † November 9, 1959 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish athlete .

At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 Lehtonen was seventeenth in the long jump with 6.28 m. In the decathlon he gave up. In the pentathlon , the points were awarded according to placement in the individual disciplines. Lehtonen won with 14 points and ten points ahead of second-placed American Everett Bradley .

Four years later, at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , Lehtonen won with 14 points, ahead of the Hungarian Elemér Somfay with 16 points and the American Robert LeGendre with 18 points. The competition went down in history because Robert LeGendre set a world record in the long jump in the first discipline with 7.765 m . However, LeGendre was not registered for the long jump competition. Lehtonen was also used in the Finnish 4-by-400-meter relay in 1924 , which, however, was eliminated in the run-up.

In 1984 a bronze statue in honor of the two-time Olympic champion was erected in the sports park in Mikkeli, Lehtonen's hometown.

source

  • Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896–1996 Track and Fields Athletics, Berlin 1999, published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV

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SURNAME Lehtonen, Eero
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lehtonen, Eero Reino (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish athlete
DATE OF BIRTH April 21, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Mikkeli
DATE OF DEATH November 9, 1959
Place of death Helsinki