Magnus_Wegelius
Magnus Wegelius
Finnish gymnast and sport shooter
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.
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| Full name | Kurt Magnus Wegelius | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | (1884-08-20)20 August 1884 Hattula, Grand Duchy of Finland, Russian Empire | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 9 December 1936(1936-12-09) (aged 52) Croydon, United Kingdom | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Education | Master of Science (Technology), Helsinki University of Technology, 1909 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Occupation(s) | Engineer, plant manager | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Sport shooting, gymnastics, track and field athletics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Olympics
| Games | Sport | Event | Rank | Notes |
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| 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]
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]
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]
He died in the 1936 KLM Croydon accident while on a business trip to England.[6][7]
- Mallon, Bill; Buchanan, Ian (2001). The 1908 Olympic Games: Results for All Competitors in All Events, With Commentary. Jefferson, North Carolina, United States: McFarland. pp. 185. ISBN 978-0-7864-0598-5.
- "Historical results". issf-sports.org. Munich, Germany: International Shooting Sport Federation. Retrieved 23 January 2021.
- Virtamo, Keijo; et al., eds. (1976). Fokus urheilu 2 (in Finnish) (4th ed.). Helsinki: Otava Publishing Company. pp. 138–139. ISBN 951-1-00331-3.
- Laitinen, Esa (1987). Suomen yleisurheilun tilasto-osa (in Finnish). Helsinki: Finnish Amateur Athletic Association. p. 332.
- Suomen liikemiehiä. Affärsmän i Finland (in Finnish and Swedish). Vol. III: Täydennysosa — Supplementband. Helsinki: Suomen kauppa ja teollisuus. 1936. p. 1621.
- "Järkyttävä lento-onnettomuus Englannissa". Hämeen Sanomat (in Finnish). Hämeenlinna. 10 December 1936. p. 4. ISSN 0356-2751. Retrieved 23 January 2021 – via Digital Collections of National Library of Finland.
