Tauno Honkanen
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Tauno Honkanen | ||||||
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Full name | Tauno Immanuel Honkanen | |||||
Born | Kittilä, Finland | 9 October 1927|||||
Died | 27 March 2023 Rovaniemi, Finland | (aged 95)|||||
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Tauno Immanuel Honkanen[1] (9 October 1927 – 27 March 2023) was a Finnish skier. Honkanen was born in Kittilä. He was a member of the national Olympic military patrol team in 1948 which finished second. His military rank at his time was Sotamies.[2] Honkanen died in Rovaniemi on 27 March 2023, at the age of 95.[3]
References
- ^ Olympiaedustajat Aatsingista Ylipulleihin
- ^ Rapport Général sur les Ves Jeux Olympiques d’hiver St-Moritz 1948 (PDF), French, p. 70.
- ^ "Tauno Honkanen". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 April 2023.
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