Paavo Vierto (1915–1941) was a Finnish

ski jumper Ski jumping is a winter sport in which competitors aim to achieve the farthest jump after sliding down on their skis from a specially designed curved ramp. Along with jump length, competitor's aerial style and other factors also affect the fina ...

who competed in the early 1940s. He finished first in the individual large hill competition at the 1941 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in

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(these championships would later be declared unofficial by the

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in 1946). As a soldier of the

Waffen-SS The (, "Armed SS") was the combat branch of the Nazi Party's ''Schutzstaffel'' (SS) organisation. Its formations included men from Nazi Germany, along with Waffen-SS foreign volunteers and conscripts, volunteers and conscripts from both occup ...

, Vierto was killed on the Eastern Front of

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in Yasinovsky, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) 1941, the day before he was scheduled to start as the German ski team's coach.Pentti Jussila: Suomen hiihto, s. 78. Otava, 1998. .

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Vierto's victory
1915 births 1941 deaths Finnish male ski jumpers Finnish Waffen-SS personnel Finnish expatriates in the Soviet Union Finnish expatriates in Ukraine Finnish military personnel killed in World War II 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-skijumping-bio-stub