Magnus Wegelius
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Template:Wikidata imageScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Karl Magnus Wegelius (20 August 1884 – 9 December 1936) was a Finnish multi-sport athlete who won five Olympic medals and eight Finnish national championships in sport shooting, gymnastics, and track and field athletics.
Sport
Olympics
| Games | Sport | Event | Rank | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1908 Summer Olympics | Gymnastics | Men's team | 3rd | Source: [1] |
| 1920 Summer Olympics | Shooting | 300 metre free rifle, three positions | 37th– | Exact rank unknown |
| Team free rifle | 4th | |||
| 300 metre team military rifle, prone | 3rd | |||
| 300 metre military rifle, standing | 11th– | Exact rank unknown | ||
| 300 metre team military rifle, standing | 7th | |||
| 600 metre military rifle, prone | 11th | |||
| 600 metre team military rifle, prone | 8th | |||
| 300 and 600 metre team military rifle, prone | 10th | |||
| 100 meter team running deer, single shots | 2nd | |||
| 100 metre team running deer, double shots | 3rd | |||
| 1924 Summer Olympics | Shooting | 100 meter running deer, single shots | 12th | |
| 100 meter team running deer, single shots | 5th | |||
| 100 meter running deer, double shots | 7th | |||
| 100 meter team running deer, double shots | 4th | |||
| Team clay pigeons | 3rd |
International
He won two bronze medals at the ISSF World Shooting Championships in 1929:[2]
- 100 metre running deer single shots, men team
- 100 metre running deer double shots, men team
National
In shooting, he won six Finnish championships in single-shot moose in 1914, 1921, 1922, 1926, 1927 and 1928.[3]
In track and field athletics, he won two Finnish national championship golds 4 × 100 metres relay and 1600 metre medley relay, both in 1910, representing the club Porin Tarmo.[4]
He was a treasurer and a vice president of Finnish Shooting Sport Federation.[5]
Career
He performed his matriculation exam in Tampere Real Lycaeum in 1905 and graduated as a diplomi-insinööri from the Helsinki University of Technology in 1909.[5]
Beginning in 1910, he worked as an engineer. He became the manager of the SOK production plants in 1918.[5]
He was a board member of the Association of National Work.[5]
He was a Knight (Chevalier) of the White Rose of Finland.[5]
Family
His parents were farmer Uno Wegelius and Helena Charlotta Wirzenius. He married Ester Tavaststjerna in 1915 and Elsbeth Anna Martinson in 1929. He had a daughter.[5]
Death
He died in the 1936 KLM Croydon accident while on a business trip to England.[6][7]
References
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External links
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- 1884 births
- 1936 deaths
- Finnish male artistic gymnasts
- Finnish male sport shooters
- ISSF rifle shooters
- Running target shooters
- Gymnasts at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Shooters at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Olympic shooters for Finland
- Olympic gymnasts for Finland
- Olympic silver medalists for Finland
- Olympic bronze medalists for Finland
- Trap and double trap shooters
- Olympic medalists in gymnastics
- Olympic medalists in shooting
- Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1936
- Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in England
- People from Hattula
- 20th-century Finnish sportsmen
- 20th-century Finnish people