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Matti Launonen
- May 31, 1944
- March 23, 2019
- 74 years
- complications from a fall
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Matti Launonen, 74, Finnish table tennis player, Paralympic champion (1992, 1996), complications from a fall.
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|Matti Launonen (31 May 1944 – 23 March 2019) was a Finnish para table tennis player who competed until his sudden death in 2019. He was one of the first table tennis players to win a world title in the para table tennis championships in Assen, Netherlands and a European title in Salou, Spain.
Launonen was seriously injured aged 18 in a car accident while travelling at more than 80 km/h, the car he was driving had handbrake fault and he couldn't stop the car: the car suddenly turned and rolled around.
He had a fall at his home and suffered a leg injury but died at hospital aged 74 in Florida.
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