Paavo Juhani Tirkkonen (2 December 1947 – 5 August 2012) was a Finnish

ice hockey Ice hockey (or simply hockey) is a team sport played on ice skates, usually on an ice skating rink with lines and markings specific to the sport. It belongs to a family of sports called hockey. In ice hockey, two opposing teams use ice h ...

defenceman and Olympian. Tirkkonen played with Team Finland at the

1968 Winter Olympics The 1968 Winter Olympics, officially known as the X Olympic Winter Games (french: Les Xes Jeux olympiques d'hiver), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 18 February 1968 in Grenoble, France. Thirty-seven countries participated. Frenchm ...

held in

Grenoble lat, Gratianopolis , commune status = Prefecture and commune , image = Panorama grenoble.png , image size = , caption = From upper left: Panorama of the city, Grenoble’s cable cars, place Saint- ...

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. He previously played for SaPKo Savonlinna in

SM-Liiga The SM-liiga (marketed as just Liiga from 2013 on), (Finnish for ''League'') colloquially called the Finnish Elite League in English or FM-ligan in Swedish, is the top professional ice hockey league in Finland. It is one of the six founding leagu ...

. Society for International Hockey Research Database, retrieved June 29, 2015

References

1947 births 2012 deaths Finnish ice hockey defencemen Ice hockey players at the 1968 Winter Olympics Olympic ice hockey players of Finland People from Savonlinna Sportspeople from South Savo {{Finland-icehockey-defenceman-stub