Armas Taipale

Armas Taipale

Taipale at the 1912 Olympics
Personal information
Born	27 July 1890 Helsinki, Finland
Died	9 November 1976 (aged 86) Turku, Finland
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	90–95 kg (198–209 lb)
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	Discus throw, shot put
Club	HKV, Helsinki
Achievements and titles
Personal best(s)	DT – 48.90 m (1914) SP – 13.855 m (1919);
Medal record Representing Finland Olympic Games 1912 Stockholm Discus throw 1912 Stockholm Two-handed discus throw 1920 Antwerp Discus throw

Armas Rudolf Taipale (27 July 1890 – 9 November 1976) was a Finnish athlete, who competed at three Olympic Games in 1912, 1920 and 1924 and won two gold medals and a silver medal.

Career

Taipale started competing in 1908 and won three Finnish titles in the discus throw and two in the shot put.

At the 1912 Olympic Games he 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.

In 1914, he won the British AAA Championships title in both shot put and discus throw at the 1914 AAA Championships..

After World War I, he won a silver medal in the conventional discus throw at the 1920 Summer Olympics and finished tenth in the shot put. At the 1924 Summer Olympics, he competed only in the discus throw and finished in 12th place.

Taipale set two unofficial world records in the discus.

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.

External links

• Armas Taipale at Olympics.com
• Armas Taipale at Olympedia