Kalevi Vilho Tapio ”Kallu” Tuominen (9 August 1927 – 23 January 2020)[1][2] was a Finnish basketball coach and player and sports executive, who also played handball and football at the national top-tier level as well as practiced many other sports.
In basketball, the 174-centimetre-tall (5 ft 9 in) Jantunen played his whole SM-sarja career for Tampereen Pyrintö and also coached the team between 1960 and 1964.
He was capped 11 times as a player and was a long-time head coach of Finland men's national team in its peak era.
During Tuominen's coaching years 1955–1969 Finland qualified for the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo (the only Finnish ball game team still in 2016 that has advanced to the Olympics through qualification), where it placed 11th, and played in seven EuroBaskets (1955 [Tuominen as player-coach], 1957, 1959, 1961, 1963, 1965 and 1967).
[6] Tuominen died after a long illness at Suursuo Hospital in Helsinki on 23 January 2020, aged 92.