Kerttu Pehkonen

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Kerttu Pehkonen
Country	Finland
Born	Kerttu Marjatta Pehkonen (1928-10-26)26 October 1928 Joroinen, Finland
Died	23 February 2018(2018-02-23) (aged 89) Varkaus, Finland

Kerttu Pehkonen (26 October 1928 – 23 February 2018) was the first female competitive cross-country skier who won numerous prestigious Nordic cross country competititons such as the Lahti Ski Games.^[1]^[2]^[3]

In 1947 Pehkonen won the first female Finnish Sports Personality of the Year award.^[4]

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