Tauno Luiro

Tauno Johannes Luiro ( born February 24, 1932 in Rovaniemi, † October 29, 1955 ) was a Finnish ski jumper.

Luiro, who started for the Ounasvaaran Hiihtoseura, jumped on March 2, 1951 139 meters world record in Oberstdorf. This lasted until 1961. 1951 Luiro became the first ski jumper that did not come from Norway and won the jumping at Holmenkollen in Oslo.

At the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 he was on the large hill 18 It was his last major tournament. On October 29, 1955, for years from diabetes mellitus suffering Luiro died of pulmonary tuberculosis in his hometown Rovaniemi.