Väinö Siikaniemi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Väinö Siikaniemi

athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 27-Mar-1887

Place of Birth: Hollola, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland

Date of Death: 24-Aug-1932

Profession: poet, athletics competitor, javelin thrower

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Väinö Villiam Siikaniemi (27 March 1887 – 24 August 1932) 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 with the right hand and with the left hand.Siikaniemi retired from sports after the 1912 Games and became a math teacher, poet and translator.
In 1923 he published his first poem and 1929 a collection of poetry.
In 1916 he married singer Oili Silventoinen (1888–1932) and later also wrote lyrics for songs.
He died of pneumonia, aged 45.
It was said that he caught a cold during a marathon swim, which he took in an attempt to fight depression caused by a sudden death of his wife two weeks earlier.