Kyösti Lehtonen
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Competitor for  Finland |
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| Gold | 1956 Melbourne | Lightweight |
Kyösti Lehtonen (b. 13 March 1931 in Jämsä; d. 15 November 1987 in Helsinki) was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
[edit] World Championships
Lehtonen was world lightweight (67 kg.) Greco-Roman wrestling silver medalist at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe, behind gold medalist Grigory Gamarnik of the USSR and beating out bronze medalist Gustav Freij of Sweden.
[edit] Olympics
Lehtonen competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the lightweight class.[1]
[edit] References
- ^ "1956 Summer Olympics – Melbourne, Australia – Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 27, 2008)
- This article incorporates information from the German Wikipedia.
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