Mikko Hyvärinen graduated from high school in 1909. Until 1914, he underwent training as a gymnastics teacher. During this time, he was a member of the Finnish gymnastics team that won silver behind Norway in the free system at the 1912 Olympic Games. In 1917, Hyvärinen started working as gymnastics and health teacher at the Finnish Cooperative School in Kuopio, as well as at the school for the blind and the school for the deaf and dumb. In the Finnish Army, he was promoted to lieutenant-colonel in 1918. Beginning in 1929, he was a gymnastics and health teacher at the Lappeenranta Cooperative High School for boys. He remained unmarried.
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