Väinö Siikaniemi, Finnish javelin thrower, poet, and translator (died 1932)

Väinö Siikaniemi

Athletics competitor

Väinö Villiam Siikaniemi was a Finnish athlete who competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics. He finished fifth in the conventional javelin throw and won the silver medal in the two-handed javelin throw, a one-time Olympic event in which the total was counted as a sum of best throws…