Saturday died as Lydia Wideman-Lehtonen was the first-ever women’s cross country skiing olympic champion.Lydia Wideman left the racing ski after the war, but was inspired by the re-sister, encouraged by this success. Alma Media archive
died at 98 years of age in Tampere, finland. He was the world’s oldest surviving olympic champion.
the gold medal women made his life’s work Vehmaisten brick factory branch stina and the hook peninsula in kanslistina. When the retirement age was filled, Lydia asked hook peninsula leader, was he forced to retire.
– It describes your very mother nature. Mother lived alone in the switchboard up at home, got sick and passed away calmly Sa hospital on Saturday morning, told his son, Jarmo Lehtonen .
– Lydia was a Finnish female ski cross-country trails open, described the olympic champions of skiing’s grand old man Antero Kekkonen , 95.
Career over a family
Lydia Wideman-Lehtonen was born vilppula in 17. on may 1920. The family had ten children.
Lydia was an hour younger than her identical sister June .
Lydia Wideman won the gold in the 10 km skiing at the Oslo winter olympics in 1952, when the women’s skiing was the first time in olympics as a species.
Finnish festival in Oslo, complement Mirja sand men and Siiri Rantanen silver and bronze. It is the last triple winner of the olympic games.
Lydia Wideman had all the time in the second winter sports olympic gold and by and large medal-winning Finnish women. The first was Ludovika Jakobsson , who beat her husband, Walter Jakobsson with gold the Antwerp summer olympics held in pair skating in the year 1920.
When the other skiers camped in the Vuokatilla before the race, head coach Veli Saarinen called the brick factory director and ask for Lydia free.
Lydia sat the manager opposite, when the manager answered the phone Saarinen:
Wideman is already on the way Vuokatille.
Lydia Wideman stopped skiing career soon Oslo gold after skiing and getting married Paavo Lehtonen .
They had two sons, who both became ski young Finnish masters of the High ranks.
Lydia Wideman self-represented Mänttä athletes, Tampere skiing track as well as aktiiviura after the Tampere Effort,
Lydia Wideman-Lehtonen, introduced in 2010, the Oslo olympic games gold medal winner of the honor book. Jukka Ritola / ALMaailman old, I congratulate the 95-year-old
When the Antero Kekkonen met last midsummer day, 95 years, Lydia Wideman-Lehtonen arrived at the party in white on the son Together and daughter Sari .
the Party was great sport event, when the world’s oldest olympic champion to congratulate the 95-year-old hero of the day.
I Got to sit at the same table as He, Lydia, Hilkka Riihivuori , and Juha Mieto . World champion and olympic medalist Hilkka Riihivuori was Lydia’s heart friend.
the Bonnet thinks Lydia’s a long life the secret was it, that he takes life positively and never complained.
Lydia’s twin sister Tyyne lived yläkerrassamme Valkeakoski. Tyyne Wideman (1920-2014) was the Finnish champion and the best woman hiihtäjämme, but he ended his career already in 1951 once they got married PRINT skiing head coach Gunnar Elovaaran .
Lydia Wideman left after the war, racing ski, but it was inspired by the re-Pacific encouraged by this success, four years after the break.
