Heikki Heikinpoika Lehmusto (30 August 1884 – 22 September 1958) was a Finnish sports leader and a sportswriter, who won bronze in the
1908 Summer Olympics.[1]
Sport
Wrestling was his main sport, but he won an Olympic medal in gymnastics.[2]
He won the Finnish academic heavy weight wrestling championship in 1914[4] and 1915,[5] which would be his best achievement in the sport as an athlete.[2]
He was a member of the board of the
Finnish Olympic Committee in 1919–1920, 1927–1928 and 1934–1938, and the leader of the Finnish wrestling team at the 1920, 1928 and 1936 Summer Olympics.[7]
His father was Heikki Lindholm (former Uusi-Lampila) and mother Kaisa Niesi. He finnicized his family name from Lindholm to Lehmusto in 1906. His first wife until 1928 was Elin Ingeborg Sjöblom, and second wife from 1929 Anna Solntsew-Sundström, the daughter of
Sergei Solntsev. His only child Heikki was born in 1913.[2]
He took his matriculation exam in the Porvoon suomalainen yhteiskoulu in 1906. He submitted his doctoral thesis in the University of Helsinki in 1923. His academic career peaked with an adjunct professorship in the
University of Turku.[2]
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^"Akateemiset urheilukilpailut". Suomen Urheilulehti (in Finnish). 1 April 1915. p. 450.
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^Järvinen, Eino (1977). 70 vuotta suomalaista painia 1906–1976 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Wrestling Federation. p. 62.
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abSiukonen, Markku (2001). Urheilukunniamme puolustajat. Suomen olympiaedustajat 1906–2000. Suuri olympiateos (in Finnish). Vol. 12. Jyväskylä: Graface. p. 168.
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^Järvinen, Eino (1977). 70 vuotta suomalaista painia 1906–1976 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Wrestling Federation. p. 15.
^Halila, Aimo; Sirmeikkö, Paul (1960). Kotkas, Kallio (ed.). Suomen voimistelu- ja urheiluliitto SVUL: 1900–1960 (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Gymnastics and Sports Federation. p. 642.
^Lempinen, Jorma (1993). "Heikki Lehmusto. Painijan sielunelämä". In Mäkelä, Pekka; et al. (eds.). Kilpakenttien sankarit (in Finnish). Vol. 3. Helsinki: Tammi. p. 250.
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