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Lauri Lehtinen

1908 - 1973

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Lauri Aleksanteri Lehtinen (10 August 1908 – 4 December 1973) was a Finnish long-distance runner and the winner of a controversial 5000 m race at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Lehtinen set a new world record in the 5000 m (14:17.0) just a month before the Olympics, making him a leading favorite for the Olympic 5000 m title. In the final, Lehtinen and fellow Finn Lauri Virtanen led the race early, eventually distancing themselves from all competitors except Ralph Hill of the United States. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lauri Lehtinen has received more than 75,312 page views. His biography is available in 23 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 22 in 2019). Lauri Lehtinen is the 655th most popular athlete (down from 130th in 2019), the 277th most popular biography from Finland (down from 114th in 2019) and the 31st most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 655 out of 6,025. Before him are Ondina Valla, Anders Gärderud, István Rózsavölgyi, Vasily Rudenkov, Peter Frenkel, and Imre Polyák. After him are Janne Lundblad, Maricica Puică, Elfriede Kaun, Leonid Spirin, Pino Dordoni, and Marc Wright.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 283. Before him are Enrique Peralta Azurdia, Jack Gilford, Théodore Nouwens, Kazuo Hasegawa, Eve Arden, and Odette Bancilhon. After him are William McMahon, Viacheslav Ragozin, Concha Piquer, Zainab Biisheva, Antonio Pesenti, and Vano Muradeli. Among people deceased in 1973, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 202. Before him are Washington Ortuño, Elise Ottesen-Jensen, Théo Lefèvre, Balraj Sahni, Willy Birgel, and Lon Chaney Jr.. After him are Beulah Louise Henry, Aleksandr Ponomarev, Josué de Castro, Betty Field, Albert Paris Gütersloh, and Raymond Schwartz.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 277 out of 751. Before him are Henrik Gabriel Porthan (1739), Verner Järvinen (1870), Jukka Nevalainen (1978), Reino Kuuskoski (1907), Heikki Liimatainen (1894), and Martti Marttelin (1897). After him are Aulis Kallakorpi (1929), Timo Kotipelto (1969), Väinö Kokkinen (1899), Akilles Järvinen (1905), Laila Kinnunen (1939), and Märta Tikkanen (1935).

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Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 31. Before him are Eino Penttilä (1906), Toivo Loukola (1902), Paavo Johansson (1895), Verner Järvinen (1870), Heikki Liimatainen (1894), and Martti Marttelin (1897). After him are Akilles Järvinen (1905), Siiri Rantanen (1924), Viljo Heino (1914), Rodrigo (null), Pauli Nevala (1940), and Pekka Vasala (1948).

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