Jalmari Kivenheimo
| Jalmari Kivenheimo | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Viktor Jalmar "Jalmari" Kivenheimo | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 25 September 1889 Tuusula, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 October 1994 (aged 105) Mikkeli, Finland | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Men's artistic gymnastics | ||||||||||||||
| Country represented | Finland | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Viktor Jalmar "Jalmari" Kivenheimo (25 September 1889 – 29 October 1994) was a Finnish gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
He was part of the Finnish team, which won the silver medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event. He is the longest-lived Olympic medalist, and he died in 1994 at the age of 105.[2][3] He was the last surviving Olympic medalist born before the 1896 Games began on 6 April.[4]
References
- ^ databaseOlympics profile for Jalmari Kivenheimo Archived 2007-09-30 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Greenberg, Stan (September 2007). Olympian Almanack 2008.
- ^ "Jalmari Kivenheimo". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 April 2021.
- ^ Tchir, Paul (September 20, 2019). "Last Survivors of Early Olympic Games, Part II". olympstats.com. Retrieved February 21, 2025.