Eevi Huttunen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Eevi Huttunen

Finnish speed skater

Date of Birth: 23-Aug-1922

Place of Birth: Karttula, Eastern Finland Province, Finland

Date of Death: 03-Dec-2015

Profession: speed skater

Nationality: Finland

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Eevi Huttunen, married name Pirinen (23 August 1922 – 3 December 2015), was a speed skater from Finland.
She was born in Karttula. Being for a decade almost the only female skater able to compete against the Soviet ladies on the longer distances, Huttunen made a comeback specially for the 1960 Winter Olympics (the first where women speed skaters were allowed to compete), where she won the bronze on the 3000 m.
She competed in eleven World Allround Championships which was till 1960 the only international speed skating event for women, from 1948 to 1960 (every year except 1956 and 1958), winning the 1951 event and being on many occasions the best non-soviet skater, certainly in the longer distances.