Paavo Vierto
Paavo Vierto was a Finnish ski jumper who competed in the early 1940s. He finished first in the individual large hill competition at the 1941 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo. As a soldier of the Waffen-SS, Vierto was killed on the Eastern Front of World War II in Yasinovsky, Soviet Union 1941, the day before he was scheduled to start as the German ski team's coach.