Kalevi Johannes Laitinen (19 May 1918 – 6 January 1997) was a

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and Olympic champion. He was born and died in

Kotka Kotka (; ; la, Aquilopolis) is a city in the southern part of the Kymenlaakso province on the Gulf of Finland. Kotka is a major port and industrial city and also a diverse school and cultural city, which was formerly part of the old Kymi parish. ...

. Laitinen competed at the

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where he received a gold medal in ''team combined exercises''."1948 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Gymnastics"
''databaseOlympics.com'' (Retrieved on April 3, 2008) At the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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he received a bronze medal in ''team combined exercises'' with the Finnish team.

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1918 births 1997 deaths Sportspeople from Kotka Finnish male artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Finland Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Finland Olympic medalists in gymnastics Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Finland 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-Olympic-medalist-stub