Great Olympians

Biographies - POY


Washington Augusto Poyet Carreras

B. 1939-01-12, Montevideo, Uruguay; D. 2007-06-16
Basketball
1960 1964 HP
Men's Team 8th 8th 256
256


(Lauri) Tapio Pöyhönen

B. 1927-11-19, Helsinki, Finland; D. 2011-08-27
Basketball
1952 HP
Men's Team R1:4th 7.25
7.25


Dorothy Poynton

competed in 1936 as

Dorothy Poynton-Hill

B. 1915-07-17, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; D. 1995-05-18
Diving (2 gold, 1 silver, 1 bronze)
1928 1932 1936 HP
Platform - gold gold 12800
Springboard silver - bronze 7216
20016

She was barely thirteen when she won her silver at Amsterdam, but the official results somehow got that originally mixed up. An attractive blonde, she opened her own aquatic club in Los Angeles.


Toini Kylikki Pöysti

B. 1933-07-01, Ahlainen, Finland
Cross-Country Skiing (2 bronze)
1960 1964 HP
Women's 5 kilometres fifth 1000
Women's 10 kilometres sixth fifth 1800
Women's 3x7.5 kilometres Relay bronze bronze 1280
4080


Written 2002-08-25 - last modified 2020-05-17

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