Pentti Laaksonen (13 January 1929 – 29 April 2005) was a Finnish

basketball Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular Basketball court, court, compete with the primary objective of #Shooting, shooting a basketball (ball), basketball (appr ...

player. He competed in the men's tournament 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 ...

. Laaksonen lived his last years in Spain.

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1929 births 2005 deaths Basketball players from Helsinki Finnish men's basketball players Olympic basketball players for Finland Basketball players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Finnish expatriate basketball people in Spain {{Finland-basketball-bio-stub