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Eino Penttilä

1906 - 1982

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Eino Penttilä (27 August 1906 – 24 November 1982) was a Finnish javelin thrower who won a bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics, behind teammates Matti Järvinen and Matti Sippala. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Eino Penttilä has received more than 11,611 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Eino Penttilä is the 509th most popular athlete (up from 527th in 2019), the 259th most popular biography from Finland (up from 262nd in 2019) and the 25th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Eino Penttilä ranks 509 out of 6,025Before him are Sid Atkinson, Percy Williams, Henry Macintosh, Carlo Airoldi, Fred Kelly, and František Janda-Suk. After him are Ilona Slupianek, Carl Bertilsson, Iván Pedroso, Vyacheslav Ivanov, John Mikaelsson, and Charles Winckler.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Eino Penttilä ranks 268Before him are Charley Borah, Lou Costello, Alexander Moyzes, Ludwig Lachmann, Peter Carl Goldmark, and Olive Borden. After him are Boris Papandopulo, Erwin Geschonneck, Lee Barnes, Victor Hasselblad, Thelma Todd, and Gerardo Romero. Among people deceased in 1982, Eino Penttilä ranks 183Before him are Lightnin' Hopkins, Robert Havemann, Boris Andreyev, Tomás Romero Pereira, Hendrik Wade Bode, and Percy Williams. After him are Marie Rambert, BP Koirala, Victor Buono, Dominique Dunne, Virginia Hall, and Marie Braun.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Eino Penttilä ranks 259 out of 751Before him are Armas Taipale (1890), Jorma Ollila (1950), Adolf Ivar Arwidsson (1791), Stina Ekblad (1954), Sigrid Fick (1887), and Ali Aaltonen (1884). After him are Taina Elg (1930), Hugo Gyldén (1841), Verner Weckman (1882), Toivo Loukola (1902), Lasse Mårtenson (1934), and Paavo Väyrynen (1946).

Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Eino Penttilä ranks 25Before him are Harri Larva (1906), Pertti Karppinen (1953), Arvo Askola (1909), Edvin Wide (1896), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), and Armas Taipale (1890). After him are Toivo Loukola (1902), Paavo Johansson (1895), Verner Järvinen (1870), Heikki Liimatainen (1894), Martti Marttelin (1897), and Lauri Lehtinen (1908).