Finland’s Leo Leino was an all-round track and field athlete who competed in the pentathlon during the 1920s. At the Finnish athletics championships Leino won two silver (1923, 1925) and two bronze medals (1921, 1926). He competed in the same event at the 1924 Paris Olympics where he just missed out on a medal, finishing in fourth place. Of the five individual disciplines his best result at the Paris Games was first place in the javelin with a throw of 51.12 metres. Leino was also a talented baseball player who won the Finnish baseball championship in 1929 with Lahden Mailaveikot.
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