Pentti Hämäläinen
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| Gold | Helsinki 1952 | Bantamweight | |
| Bronze | Melbourne 1956 | Featherweight | |
Pentti Olavi Hämäläinen (born December 19, 1929 – died December 11, 1984) is a former Finnish bantamweight professional boxer, who won gold in Boxing at the 1952 Summer Olympics in his home country of Helsinki. Four years later in Melbourne he captured the bronze medal in the featherweight division (– 57 kg).
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| Olympic Boxing Champions (Bantamweight) |
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| 1904: Oliver Kirk (USA) • 1908: Henry Thomas (GBR) • 1920: Clarence Walker (RSA) • 1924: William Smith (RSA) • 1928: Vittorio Tamagnini (ITA) • 1932: Horace Gwynne (CAN) • 1936: Ulderico Sergo (ITA) • 1948: Tibor Csík (HUN) • 1952: Pentti Hämäläinen (FIN) • 1956: Wolfgang Behrendt (GER) • 1960: Oleg Grigoryev (URS) • 1964: Takao Sakurai (JPN) • 1968: Valerian Sokolov (URS) • 1972: Orlando Martínez (CUB) • 1976: Gu Yong-Ju (PRK) • 1980: Juan Hernández (CUB) • 1984: Maurizio Stecca (ITA) • 1988: Kennedy McKinney (USA) • 1992: Joel Casamayor (CUB) • 1996: István Kovács (HUN) • 2000: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) • 2004: Guillermo Rigondeaux (CUB) |
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