Eero Lehtonen

Eero Reino Lehtonen (* April 21, 1898 in Mikkeli, † November 9, 1959 in Helsinki) was a Finnish athlete.

At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp was Lehtonen Seventeenth in the long jump with 6.28 meters. In the decathlon, he gave up. In the pentathlon points were awarded according to placement in the individual disciplines. Lehtonen won with 14 points and ten points ahead of second-placed Americans Everett Bradley.

Four years later at the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 won Lehtonen with 14 points ahead of Hungary Elemér Somfay with 16 points and the Americans Robert LeGendre with 18 points. The contest went down in history because Robert LeGendre in the first discipline with 7,765 set a world record in the long jump. For the competition in the long jump LeGendre, however, was not reported. Lehtonen was also used in 1924 in the Finnish 4x400 - meter relay, but the retired in the flow.

1984 was erected a bronze statue in honor of two-time Olympic gold medal winner in the sport park Lehtonen birthplace Mikkeli.

Source

• Ekkehard to Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Fields Athletics, Berlin 1999, published via German Society for Athletics documentation eV