Heikki Kähkönen (26 December 1891 – 30 June 1962) was a

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and

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. Kähkönen competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in

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where he received a silver medal in

, the ''featherweight'' class."1920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium – Wrestling"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on 27 August 2008)

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* 1891 births 1962 deaths Olympic wrestlers of Finland Wrestlers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Finnish male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics People from Rääkkylä Sportspeople from North Karelia 19th-century Finnish people 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-wrestling-bio-stub