Pentti Raaskoski
Introduction '''Pentti Raaskoski''' (born 3 March 1929) is a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics, he was disqualified in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event. He was born in Porvoo. Raaskoski spent his childhood in Porvoo. His father was a radio repairman and his mother was a baroness. Raaskoski experienced the aerial bombardments of Porvoo during the Continuation War. Towards the end of the war, he started working as a machine forger  and was called up for military service in 1949.In 1971, he moved to Sipoos for family reasons.
References * Pentti Raaskoski's profile at Sports Reference.com
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