Lassi Parkkinen
Lassi Parkkinen 
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| Full name | Lauri Rikhard Parkkinen | |||||||||||||||
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 Finland
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| birthday | May 8, 1917 | |||||||||||||||
| place of birth | Varkaus | |||||||||||||||
| date of death | 3rd October 1994 | |||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Espoo | |||||||||||||||
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| discipline | Speed skating | |||||||||||||||
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Lauri "Lassi" Rikhard Parkkinen (born May 8, 1917 in Varkaus , † October 3, 1994 in Espoo ) was a Finnish speed skater .
Parkkinen was all-around world champion in Oslo in 1947 . Five years later he won the silver medal in Hamar .
At the Olympic Games in St. Moritz in 1948 Parkkinen won silver over 10,000 meters behind the Swede Åke Seyffarth .
Web links
- Statistics at SpeedSkatingStats
- Lassi Parkkinen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Parkkinen, Lassi |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Parkkinen, Lauri Rikhard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish speed skater |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 8, 1917 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Varkaus |
| DATE OF DEATH | 3rd October 1994 |
| Place of death | Espoo |