Leo Laakso
Leo Laakso 
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| Full name | Leo Unto Edvard Laakso | ||||||
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 Finland
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| birthday | August 21, 1918 | ||||||
| place of birth |
Heinola , Finland
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| date of death | April 4, 2002 | ||||||
| Place of death |
Helsinki , Finland
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| society | Lahden Hiihtoseura | ||||||
| National squad | since 1941 | ||||||
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Leo Unto Edvard Laakso (born August 21, 1918 in Heinola , † April 4, 2002 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish ski jumper .
Laakso took part in the unofficial and in 1946 by the FIS invalidated Nordic World Ski Championships in 1941 in Cortina d'Ampezzo . There he won the silver medal behind Paavo Vierto .
From 1941 to 1956 he won the Lahti Ski Games with the exception of 1942, where the competition did not take place . At the Olympic Winter Games in 1948 and the Nordic World Ski Championships in St. Moritz that took place at the same time , he was sixth on the normal hill.
Web links
- Leo Laakso in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Leo Laakso in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Olympic Winter Games Nordic World Championships (PDF; 151 kB) Archived from the original on September 10, 2011. Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved September 21, 2013.
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| SURNAME | Laakso, Leo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Laakso, Leo Unto Edvard (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish ski jumper |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heinola , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 4, 2002 |
| Place of death | Helsinki , Finland |