Kyösti Kalevi Laasonen (born 27 September 1945) is an

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

from Finland, who was born in

Kitee Kitee (; ) is a town and a municipality of Finland. It is located in the province of Eastern Finland and is part of the North Karelia region, about south of Joensuu and about northeast of Lappeenranta. The municipality has a population of () ...

, Finland. Laasonen competed for Finland in the

1972 Summer Olympics The 1972 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XX Olympiad () and officially branded as Munich 1972 (; ), were an international multi-sport event held in Munich, West Germany, from 26 August to 11 September 1972. It was the ...

held in

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, Germany in the individual event where he finished in third place behind American

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and Sweden's

Gunnar Jervill Gunnar Jervill (born 23 November 1945) is an archer from Sweden, who was born in Gothenburg. He competed for Sweden in the 1972 Summer Olympics held in Munich, Germany in the individual event where he finished in second place behind America ...

. Four years later he finished 15th at the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

held in

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, Canada followed by 7th and 28th in the

1980 Summer Olympics The 1980 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXII Olympiad () and officially branded as Moscow 1980 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1980 in Moscow, Soviet Union, in present-day Russ ...

and

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respectively. His brother Kauko Laasonen also competed in the 1976 Summer Olympics finishing in 20th position.

References

* 1945 births Living people People from Kitee Finnish male archers Olympic archers for Finland Olympic bronze medalists for Finland Archers at the 1972 Summer Olympics Archers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Archers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Archers at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in archery World Archery Championships medalists Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from North Karelia 20th-century Finnish sportsmen {{Finland-archery-bio-stub