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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, winner of a controversial 5000 m race at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. Lehtinen ran a new world record in 5000 m (14:17.0) just a month prior to the Olympics, thus becoming a main favourite to the Olympic 5000 m title. In the final, the Finns Lehtinen and Lauri Virtanen led early. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Lauri Lehtinen has received more than 69,012 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 20 in 2019). Lauri Lehtinen is the 130th most popular athlete (up from 250th in 2019), the 114th most popular biography from Finland (up from 174th in 2019) and the 7th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 130 out of 3,059Before him are Alfred Neuland, Gyula Kellner, Edwin Moses, Nasser Al-Attiyah, Roger Bannister, and Donald Lippincott. After him are Carlos Lopes, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs, Thomas Curtis, Jürgen Schult, Lee Evans, and Johan Grøttumsbråten.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1908, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 148Before him are Son Ngoc Thanh, Anna Sten, Elek Schwartz, Maria Prymachenko, Fritz Fischer, and Vaikom Muhammad Basheer. After him are Henryk Zygalski, Robert Morley, Ho Jong-suk, Nikolay Nosov, Mario Evaristo, and Boris Polevoy. Among people deceased in 1973, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 121Before him are Fuad Chehab, Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Johannes Aavik, Carlo Emilio Gadda, Paul van Zeeland, and Âşık Veysel. After him are Yaakov Dori, Grigori Kozintsev, José Alfredo Jiménez, Jim Croce, Amleto Giovanni Cicognani, and Carmine Gallone.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 114 out of 642Before him are Eemil Nestor Setälä (1864), Lauri Ingman (1868), Kaija Saariaho (1952), Bo Carpelan (1926), Eero Mäntyranta (1937), and Mika Kaurismäki (1955). After him are Anders Chydenius (1729), Aimo Lahti (1896), Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Antti Rinne (1962), Harri Holkeri (1937), and Carl Johan Adlercreutz (1759).

Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Lauri Lehtinen ranks 7Before him are Paavo Nurmi (1897), Hannes Kolehmainen (1889), Lasse Virén (1949), Ville Ritola (1896), Matti Järvinen (1909), and Albin Stenroos (1889). After him are Volmari Iso-Hollo (1907), Gunnar Höckert (1910), Lauri Virtanen (1904), Elias Katz (1901), Veikko Kankkonen (1940), and Armas Taipale (1890).