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Onni Pellinen

Olympic wrestler (1899-1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ326182 ↗
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Onni Pellinen (14 February 1899 – 30 October 1950) was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Olympics

Pellinen competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris where he won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, in the light heavyweight class .

He won another bronze medal at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam.

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles he won a silver medal.

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The public source identifies “Onni Pellinen” as olympic wrestler (1899-1950). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Onni, Pellinen and Olympic.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1899, 1950, 1924, 1928—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1899-02-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Onni, Pellinen and Olympic providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q326182. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1899, 1950, 1924 and 1928.

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This entry incorporates text from “Onni Pellinen” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.