Pentti Raaskoski
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Jarmo Pentti Antero Raaskoski (3 March 1929 – 13 October 2014) was 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.[1] Raaskoski died on 13 October 2014, at the age of 85.[2]
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