Edvard Linna

Finnish artistic gymnast

Gymnastics
Figure skating

Club

Ylioppilasvoimistelijat
Helsingin Luistelijat
Helsingin suomalaisen reaalilyseon Tarmo
Helsingin Katajaiset

Medal record

Men's Gymnastics

	1908 London	Gymnastics team

Edvard Ferdinand Linna (26 August 1886 – 30 December 1974) was a Finnish gymnast who won bronze in the 1908 Summer Olympics.^[1]

Sport

Gymnastics

Edvard Linna at the Olympic Games
Games	Event	Rank	Notes
1908 Summer Olympics	Men's team	3rd	Source: ^[2]

He was also selected to Finland's 1912 Olympic gymnastics team, but dropped out due to an injury.^[3]

He won the Finnish national championship in team gymnastics as a member of Ylioppilasvoimistelijat in 1909.^[3]

Figure skating

He won the Finnish figure skating championship in pair skating five times:

pair Olga Saario: 1924, 1926 and 1927
pair daughter Hilkka Linna: 1938 and 1939

Other

He was a founding member of the club Helsingin Luistelijat,^[4] and its chairman in 1929–1947.^[3]

He was the chairman of the Finnish Skating Association, the predecessor of the Finnish Figure Skating Association, in 1931–1946.^[5]

He was a board member of the Finnish Olympic Committee in 1934–1937.^[3]

Family

He finnicized his familyname from Borg to Linna on 23 June 1906.^[6] Politically he was a Fennoman.^[4]

Successful athletic family members:^[3]

Daughter Hilkka Linna (1919–1956) won two Finnish pair skating championships with him.
- Her granddaughter Liisa Kiuru (1981–) won a junior Finnish and Nordic championship in synchronized skating.
Daughter Riitta Linna (1922–2016) won a Finnish figure skating championship.
Daughter Kirsti Linna (1926–) won five Finnish figure skating championships.

References

^ "Edvard Linna". Olympedia. Retrieved 2 March 2021.
^ Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. pp. 185. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Siukonen, Markku (2001). Urheilukunniamme puolustajat. Suomen olympiaedustajat 1906–2000. Suuri olympiateos (in Finnish). Jyväskylä: Graface. p. 186. ISBN 951-98673-1-7.
^ ^a ^b Puromies, Anu (2008). Tähtiä jäällä. Tarinoita taitoluistelusta (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Figure Skating Association. p. 65. ISBN 978-951-0-34897-0.
^ Virtapohja, Kalle, ed. (2022). SVUL:n vuosisata. Suomen suurin ja vaikutusvaltaisin urheilujärjestö [The Century of SVUL]. Suomen Urheilumuseosäätiön tutkimuksia (in Finnish). Vol. 4. Helsinki: Urheilun ja liikunnan kulttuurikeskus TAHTO, SVUL. p. 466. ISBN 9789526644219. ISSN 2243-1489.
^ "Nimenmuuttoja. Namnförändringar". Lisälehti. Suomen Wirallinen Lehti (in Finnish and Swedish). Helsinki. 23 June 1906. p. 11. ISSN 1457-4675. Retrieved 2 July 2019 – via Digital Collections of National Library of Finland.

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