Pekka Pietilä

Pekka Johannes Pietilä, born in Tampere on 3 September 1930 and died on 8 September 2015, was a Finnish ten-pin bowler who succeeded at the world championships of the 1950s. In Essen in 1955 he won the world title in the eight-man team event and silver in the five-man event, and in Helsingborg in 1958 the results were reversed, with gold in the five-man event and silver in the eight-man team event. He finished fourth in the individual event in Essen. Bowling for the Tampere club Nasta, he won the 1954 Finnish team title and the doubles title with Matti Nieminen, set a Finnish eight-game record of 1797 that year and was named bowler of the year. His best eight-game total was 1816 and his best single game 290. He had earlier competed in motor sport and orienteering.