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Olympic wrestler
Väinö Penttala
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Place of birth
Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia, Western and Central Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
Place of death
Isokyrö, Ostrobothnia, Western and Central Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
Age
79 years
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Väinö Penttala (16 January 1897 – 28 February 1976) was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist.
He won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp. In 1923 the first freestyle wrestling tournaments took place in Finland. Penttala won the title four times (until 1927).,
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