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Veli Lehtelä

1935 - 2020

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Veli Veikko Valtteri Lehtelä (6 September 1935 – 3 June 2020) was a Finnish rower. He competed in various two-man and four man events at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won two bronze medals, in 1956 and 1960. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Veli Lehtelä has received more than 9,617 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Veli Lehtelä is the 1,206th most popular athlete (up from 1,819th in 2019), the 364th most popular biography from Finland (up from 433rd in 2019) and the 60th most popular Finnish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Veli Lehtelä ranks 1,206 out of 6,025Before him are Hiroshi Suzuki, Kurt Wires, Jörg Drehmel, Hildegard Falck, Teodor Koskenniemi, and Ernest Hamilton. After him are Vladimir Belousov, Marie-José Pérec, Yohan Blake, Torfi Bryngeirsson, Lily Carlstedt, and Mary Frizzell.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1935, Veli Lehtelä ranks 432Before him are Frank Robinson, Alfredo del Águila, Mal Anderson, Teddy Mayer, Laurynas Stankevičius, and Egon Franke. After him are Oumarou Ganda, Jack McDevitt, Alberto Mariotti, Prem Chopra, James Cotton, and Ivan Calin. Among people deceased in 2020, Veli Lehtelä ranks 562Before him are Robert May, Baron May of Oxford, Amadou Gon Coulibaly, Wolfgang Hofmann, Anthony Soter Fernandez, Toke Talagi, and Li Wenliang. After him are James E. Gunn, Giovanni Battista Rabino, Jon E. Ahlquist, Pedro Nájera, Camilla Wicks, and Harold Budd.

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In Finland

Among people born in Finland, Veli Lehtelä ranks 364 out of 751Before him are Hermanni Pihlajamäki (1903), Erkki Kataja (1924), Wivi Lönn (1872), Karita Mattila (1960), Kurt Wires (1919), and Teodor Koskenniemi (1887). After him are Katri Vala (1901), Sami Vänskä (1976), Paavo Lonkila (1923), Leena Krohn (1947), Kaarlo Tuominen (1908), and Aki Karvonen (1957).

Among ATHLETES In Finland

Among athletes born in Finland, Veli Lehtelä ranks 60Before him are Pentti Hämäläinen (1929), Sulo Bärlund (1910), Thorvald Strömberg (1931), Erkki Kataja (1924), Kurt Wires (1919), and Teodor Koskenniemi (1887). After him are Kaarlo Tuominen (1908), Kaarlo Maaninka (1953), Väinö Ikonen (1895), Sulo Nurmela (1908), Kaarlo Kangasniemi (1941), and Eino Purje (1900).