Pentti Linnosvuo

Pentti Tapio Aleksi Linnosvuo (17 March 1933 – 13 July 2010)[1] was a Finnish sport shooter.[2] Linnosvuo was born in Vaasa, but grew up in Helsinki, where he played ice hockey with Helsingin Jalkapalloklubi, and basketball and football with Sudet.He took up shooting aged 15, first with a rifle, but then changed to pistol, which was easier to handle for a left-handed person.He later won 15 more national titles in 1952–1967 and served as the Finnish flag bearer at the 1968 Olympics.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article relating to sport shooting in Finland is a stub.
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