Armas Taipale, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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athletics competitor
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Place of Birth: Helsinki, Uusimaa, Finland
About Armas Taipale
- Armas Rudolf Taipale (27 July 1890 – 9 November 1976) was a Finnish athlete.
- He competed at the 1912 Summer Olympics and won gold medals in two discus throw events, conventional and two-handed, where the total was counted as a sum of best throws with a left hand and with a right hand.
- After World War I he won a silver medal in the conventional discus throw at the 1920 Olympics and finished tenth in the shot put.
- At the 1924 Olympics he competed only in the discus throw and finished in 12th place.
- Taipale set two unofficial world records in the discus.Domestically Taipale started competing in 1908 and won three Finnish titles in the discus throw and two in the shot put.
- In 1914 he was British champion both in the shot put and discus throw.
- Besides athletics he competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the Nordic Games and played association football.
- In 1923 he immigrated to the United States, but returned to Finland in 1974.
- He was a businessman and lawyer by occupation.
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