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Mar 27, 1887 Hollola, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland Died on 24 Aug 1932 (aged 45)
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About Väinö Siikaniemi
- 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.
