Paavo Nuotio
Paavo Nuotio  
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| Full name | Paavo Ferdinand Nuotio |
| nation |
 Finland
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| birthday | March 13, 1901 |
| place of birth |
Heinola , Finland
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| date of death | November 14, 1968 |
| Place of death |
Lahti , Finland
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| Career | |
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| discipline |
Nordic combined ski jumping |
| society | Lahden Hiihtoseura |
Paavo Ferdinand Nuotio (born March 13, 1901 in Heinola , † November 14, 1968 in Lahti ) was a Finnish winter sportsman and pesäpallo player.
Career
Winter sports
Nuotio, who started for the Lahden Hiihtoseura club from Lahti , celebrated successes in ski jumping and Nordic combined . From 1925 to 1927 he won the Finnish championship in ski jumping. At the 1928 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz , he started in both disciplines. He reached 12th place in ski jumping from the normal hill with jumps on 50 and 56 meters. In the Nordic combined he just missed a medal as fourth behind the Norwegians Johan Grøttumsbraaten , Hans Vinjarengen and John Snersrud . A year later he won the international competition in the same place and shortly afterwards in Davos.
Pesäpallo
In Pesäpallo , a Finnish type of baseball , Nuotio played for the club Lahden Suojeluskunta and won the Lahden Mailaveikkojen in the team in 1925 and the Swedish championship from 1929 to 1932. In 1933 he published the book Mypenlaskun opas with his sports friend Lauri Valonen .
literature
- Markku Siukonen: Urheilukunniamme puolustajat - Suomen olympiaedustajat 1906-2000 . Graface Jyväskylä, 2001, ISBN 951-98673-1-7 , p. 227 .
Web links
- Paavo Nuotio in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
- Paavo Nuotio in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nordic Combined at the 1928 Sankt Moritz Winter Games: Men's Individual ( English ) Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved July 7, 2013.
- ^ Swedish Baseball Championship 1925
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| SURNAME | Nuotio, Paavo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nuotio, Paavo Ferdinand (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish winter sportsman and pesäpallo player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 13, 1901 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Heinola , Finland |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 14, 1968 |
| Place of death | Lahti , Finland |