Pentti Linnosvuo

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Olympic medal record
Competitor for Flag of Finland Finland
Men's Shooting
Gold 1956 Melbourne 50 m pistol
Gold 1964 Tokyo 25 m rapid fire pistol
Silver 1960 Rome 25 m rapid fire pistol

Pentti Tapio Akseli Linnosvuo (born March 17, 1933 in Vaasa) is a Finnish former sport shooter, the most recent shooter to win Olympic gold medals in both 50 m Pistol and 25 m Rapid Fire Pistol (the only one who had managed this previously was Alfred Lane in 1912). As the technique differs much between the two events, few modern top-level shooters even attempt to excel in both.


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Olympic medalists in shooting | Olympic Champions in men's 50 m Pistol
1896: Sumner Paine | 1900: Karl Röderer | 1908: Paul Van Asbroeck | 1912: Alfred Lane | 1920: Karl Frederick | 1936: Torsten Ullman | 1948: Edwin Vásquez | 1952: Huelet Benner | 1956: Pentti Linnosvuo | 1960: Aleksey Gushchin | 1964: Väinö Markkanen | 1968: Grigory Kosykh | 1972: Ragnar Skanåker | 1976: Uwe Potteck | 1980: Aleksandr Melentiev | 1984: Xu Haifeng | 1988: Sorin Babii | 1992: Kanstantsin Lukashyk | 1996: Boris Kokorev | 2000: Tanyu Kiryakov | 2004: Mikhail Nestruev
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Olympic medalists in shooting | Olympic champions in men's 25 m rapid fire pistol
1896: Ioannis Phrangoudis | 1900: Maurice Larrouy | 1912: Alfred Lane | 1920: Guilherme Paraense | 1924: Henry Bailey | 1932: Renzo Morigi | 1936: Cornelius van Oyen | 1948+1952: Károly Takács | 1956: Ştefan Petrescu | 1960: William McMillan | 1964: Pentti Linnosvuo | 1968+1972: Józef Zapędzki | 1976: Norbert Klaar | 1980: Corneliu Ion | 1984: Takeo Kamachi | 1988: Afanasijs Kuzmins | 1992+1996: Ralf Schumann | 2000: Sergei Alifirenko | 2004: Ralf Schumann
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