Eino Kuvaja competed in the military ski patrol at both the 1928 and 1936 Winter Olympics placing second with his team on both occasions. In 1948, he was a member of the jury in the military ski patrol, which remained a demonstration event. At the 1929 World Championships, he won the military ski patrol with the Finnish team and competed at two more World Championships, in 1930 and 1939. Kuvaja was chairman of the Puijo Ski Club 1956-1965 and several times of the cross-country section of the national ski federation. After attending the Kupio business school he started a career as officer. In the Finnish-Soviet continuation war, he was major and later lieutenant-colonel in the Finnish infantry. In 1944, he received the Mannerheim Cross for his services, after he was wounded at Äyräpää. After leaving the army, he worked as an insurance inspector and sales representative of a company manufacturing wooden houses.
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