Urho Pellervo Peltonen (15 January 1893 – 7 January 1951) was a

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athlete who competed mainly in the

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. He competed for Finland in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden, in both the regular and two-handed javelin throw, a one-time Olympic event in which the total was counted as a sum of best throws with the right hand and with the left hand. Peltonen won a bronze medal in the latter event behind fellow Finns

Julius Saaristo Juho Julius Saaristo (21 July 1891 – 12 October 1969) was a Finnish track and field athlete. He won two medals at the 1912 Olympics: a silver in conventional javelin throw and a gold in the two-handed javelin throw, a one-time Olympic event i ...

and Väinö Siikaniemi and one place ahead of Swede

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, who had won the one hand competition. Eight years later after World War I he again competed for Finland in the 1920 Summer Olympics held in Antwerp,

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, where he won the silver medal in the regular javelin as Finland swept the first four places with

Jonni Myyrä Joonas "Jonni" Myyrä (13 July 1892 – 22 January 1955) was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912, 1920 and 1924 Olympics. In 1912, he finished eighth in the javelin throw. At the 1920 Olympics his left arm was fractured in a warm-up accid ...

winning, Paavo Johansson in third and Saaristo in fourth. His personal best, set in Helsinki in 1916, was 64.35 m. This was superior to Lemming's official world record at the time of 62.32 m, but was never ratified by IAAF as a new world record. However, it was ratified as a Finnish record.

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template on the development of the national javelin record After retiring from competitions Peltonen became an official with the

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1893 births 1951 deaths People from Nurmes Finnish male javelin throwers Olympic silver medalists for Finland Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1920 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Finland Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field) Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Sportspeople from North Karelia 20th-century Finnish people {{Finland-athletics-bio-stub