Lauri Silvennoinen (November 7, 1916 – December 24, 2004) was a Finnish

cross-country skier Cross-country skiing is a form of skiing where skiers rely on their own locomotion to move across snow-covered terrain, rather than using ski lifts or other forms of assistance. Cross-country skiing is widely practiced as a sport and recreation ...

who competed in the 1940s. He was born in

Kesälahti Kesälahti ( sv, Kesälahti, also ) is a former municipality of Finland. It was consolidated with Kitee on 1 January 2013. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region. The municipality has a population ...

, North Karelia. Silvennoinen won a silver medal at the

1948 Winter Olympics The 1948 Winter Olympics, officially known as the V Olympic Winter Games (german: V. Olympische Winterspiele; french: Ves Jeux olympiques d'hiver; it, V Giochi olimpici invernali; rm, V Gieus olimpics d'enviern) and commonly known as St. Moritz ...

St. Moritz St. Moritz (also german: Sankt Moritz, rm, , it, San Maurizio, french: Saint-Moritz) is a high Alpine resort town in the Engadine in Switzerland, at an elevation of about above sea level. It is Upper Engadine's major town and a municipality in ...

in the 4 × 10 km relay.Lauri Silvennoinen, Sports-Reference / Olympic Sports
Retrieved 2019-02-15.

Cross-country skiing results

Olympic Games

* 1 medal – (1 silver)

World Championships

References

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Finland's 1948 Winter Olympic medals
1916 births 2004 deaths Cross-country skiers at the 1948 Winter Olympics Finnish male cross-country skiers Medalists at the 1948 Winter Olympics Olympic cross-country skiers for Finland Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing Olympic silver medalists for Finland People from Kesälahti People from Kuopio Province (Grand Duchy of Finland) Sportspeople from North Karelia 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-Winter-Olympic-medalist-stub