Arvi Pohjanpää

• Name — Arvi Pohjanpää • Full Name — Sulo Arvi Pohjanpää • Altname — Sulo Arvi Nordqvist • Born — 10 July 1887 • Birthplace — Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire • Died — 21 December 1959 • Place of death — Helsinki, Finland • Height — 185 cm • Discipline — MAG • Club — Ylioppilasvoimistelijat • Show Medals — yes • Medal Templates — Men's artistic gymnastics Olympic Games

Arvi Pohjanpää at the Olympic Games • Games — Event — Rank — Notes • 1908 Summer Olympics — Men's team — 3rd — Source: He won the Finnish national championship in team gymnastics as a member of Ylioppilasvoimistelijat in 1909.

He took his matriculation exam in Tampere real lycaeum in 1905. He graduated as a Master of Laws from the University of Helsinki in 1910. He received the title varatuomari in 1913. Beginning in 1911, he worked various duties in the legal system. Eventually, he was a judge advocate general in the superior court martial from 1931 to 1952 and then a Judge of the Court of Appeal in the Helsinki Court of Appeal from 1952 to 1954. He sentenced Martta Koskinen, the last woman executed in Finland, to death as chief justice of the case. He was the chief justice in the case of Hella Wuolijoki. He voted for death, although she received life imprisonment. He sentenced Arndt Pekurinen to prison for his refusal to fight in the Winter War.

He received the following honorary awards: • Commemorative Medal of the Liberation War • Commander of the White Rose of Finland, 1937 • Commemorative Medal of the Winter War • Cross of Liberty, 3rd Class; 1940 • Cross of Liberty, 2nd Class; 1945 • Decoration for 40 years' faultless service, 1951

His parents were master tailor Kaarle Henrik Pohjanpää and Ida Vilhelmina Kourlaa. His first wife was Lempi Vilma Ranttila (1892–1947), married in 1922. They had children: • Eila Helena Marjatta (1924–) • Anja Meri Kristiina (1926–) • Armi Elina Annikki (1933–1996), who married Pentti Siimes His second wife was Aila Tellervo Heikinheimo (1919–), married in 1953. He finnicized his familyname from Nordqvist to Pohjanpää in 1906. Poet Lauri Pohjanpää was his brother. Olympic diver Laura Kivelä was his granddaughter. He was buried in Finland at the Hietaniemi Cemetery.