Eero Lehtonen

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Olympic medal record
Men’s athletics
Competitor for Finland
Gold	1920 Antwerp	Pentathlon
Gold	1924 Paris	Pentathlon

Eero Reino Lehtonen (April 21, 1898, Mikkeli – November 9, 1959) was a Finnish pentathlete. He won the Olympic gold at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics. After pentathlon was removed from the Olympic programme for 1928, Lehtonen quit his career. His multi-event legacy still survived as Finnish decathletes, Paavo Yrjölä and Akilles Järvinen, took a double victory at the 1928 Summer Olympics. In 1984, Lehtonen got his own bronze statue at the sports park in Mikkeli, his home town .

References

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v t e Olympic champions in the men's all-around, pentathlon and decathlon

all-around	1904: Tom Kiely (GBR)

pentathlon	1912: Jim Thorpe (USA) / Ferdinand Bie (NOR) 1920: Eero Lehtonen (FIN) 1924: Eero Lehtonen (FIN)

decathlon	1912: Jim Thorpe (USA) / Hugo Wieslander (SWE) 1920: Helge Løvland (NOR) 1924: Harold Osborn (USA) 1928: Paavo Yrjölä (FIN) 1932: James Bausch (USA) 1936: Glenn Morris (USA) 1948: Bob Mathias (USA) 1952: Bob Mathias (USA) 1956: Milt Campbell (USA) 1960: Rafer Johnson (USA) 1964: Willi Holdorf (EUA) 1968: Bill Toomey (USA) 1972: Mykola Avilov (URS) 1976: Bruce Jenner (USA) 1980: Daley Thompson (GBR) 1984: Daley Thompson (GBR) 1988: Christian Schenk (GDR) 1992: Robert Změlík (TCH) 1996: Dan O'Brien (USA) 2000: Erki Nool (EST) 2004: Roman Šebrle (CZE) 2008: Bryan Clay (USA) 2012: Ashton Eaton (USA)

Persondata
Name	Lehtonen, Eero
Alternative names
Short description	Athletics (sport) competitor
Date of birth	April 21, 1898
Place of birth	Mikkeli
Date of death	November 9, 1959
Place of death

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