Lauri Kolho (born Saxberg, 7 September 1886 – 17 September 1940) was a Finnish sports shooter, who competed at the 1908 and the 1912 Summer Olympics.[1]
Kolho was a board member of the Finnish Shooting Sport Federation in 1922–1923.[3]
He performed his matriculation exam in the Vaasa Finnish Lycaeum in 1905. He tended his family farm from 1907.[4]
He fought in the Finnish Civil War, acted as the local chief of Kolho White Guard and in the staff of the Northern Häme White Guard District.[4]
He was active in the Lapua Movement and the Patriotic People's Movement.[5]
He died of ileus.[5]
His parents were farmer Abram Evert Kolho and Eulalia Riihimäki.[5] Olympic shooters Voitto and Yrjö Kolho were his brothers,[6] as was architect Vilho Kolho.[5]
Born Saxberg, they finnicized the family name to Kolho on 12 May 1906.[7]
He married home economics teacher Taimi Helena Ahola (1899–1966). They had four children:[5]
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