Pentti_Linnosvuo

Pentti Linnosvuo

Olympic medal record

Competitor for Finland

Men's Shooting

Gold 1956 Melbourne 50 m pistol

Gold 1964 Tokyo 25 m rapid fire pistol

Silver 1960 Rome 25 m rapid fire pistol

Pentti Tapio Akseli Linnosvuo (born March 17, 1933 in Vaasa) is a Finnish former sport shooter, the most recent shooter to win Olympic gold medals in both 50 m Pistol and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol (the only one who had managed this previously was Alfred Lane in 1912). As the technique differs much between the two events, few modern top-level shooters even attempt to excel in both.

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Olympic champions in men's 50 metre pistol

1896: Sumner Paine • 1900: Karl Röderer • 1908: Paul Van Asbroeck • 1912: Alfred Lane • 1920: Karl Frederick • 1936: Torsten Ullman • 1948: Edwin Vásquez • 1952: Huelet Benner • 1956: Pentti Linnosvuo • 1960: Aleksey Gushchin • 1964: Väinö Markkanen • 1968: Grigory Kosykh • 1972: Ragnar Skanåker • 1976: Uwe Potteck • 1980: Aleksandr Melentiev • 1984: Xu Haifeng • 1988: Sorin Babii • 1992: Kanstantsin Lukashyk • 1996: Boris Kokorev • 2000: Tanyu Kiryakov • 2004: Mikhail Nestruyev • 2008: Jin Jong-oh

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Olympic champions in men's 25 metre rapid fire pistol

1896: Ioannis Phrangoudis • 1900: Maurice Larrouy • 1912: Alfred Lane • 1920: Guilherme Paraense • 1924: Henry Bailey • 1932: Renzo Morigi • 1936: Cornelius van Oyen • 1948: Károly Takács • 1952: Károly Takács • 1956: Ştefan Petrescu • 1960: William McMillan • 1964: Pentti Linnosvuo • 1968: Józef Zapędzki • 1972: Józef Zapędzki • 1976: Norbert Klaar • 1980: Corneliu Ion • 1984: Takeo Kamachi • 1988: Afanasijs Kuzmins • 1992: Ralf Schumann • 1996: Ralf Schumann • 2000: Sergei Alifirenko • 2004: Ralf Schumann • 2008: Oleksandr Petriv

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