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

International

He won two bronze medals at the

ISSF World Shooting Championships The ISSF World Shooting Championships are governed by the International Shooting Sport Federation. World Shooting Championships began in 1897, after the successful 1896 Summer Olympics, and although the ISSF was not founded until 1907, these earl ...

in 1929: * 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. 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. He was a treasurer and a vice president of

Finnish Shooting Sport Federation The Finnish Shooting Sport Federation, ''Finnish'' Suomen Ampumaurheiluliitto (SAL), was founded in 1919 and is an umbrella organization for sport shooting in Finland, representing many international shooting sport organizations in Finland. SAL ...

Career

He performed his matriculation exam in Tampere Real Lycaeum in 1905 and graduated as a

diplomi-insinööri Diplomi-insinööri (DI) ( sv, diplomingenjör) is a Finnish Master's level academic degree with a nominal length of 300 ECTS credits. The official English translation of the degree is Master of Science (Technology). The Finnish name derives from ...

from the

Helsinki University of Technology Helsinki University of Technology (TKK; fi, Teknillinen korkeakoulu; sv, Tekniska högskolan) was a technical university in Finland. It was located in Otaniemi, Espoo in the metropolitan area of Greater Helsinki. The university was founded in ...

in 1909. Beginning in 1910, he worked as an engineer. He became the manager of the SOK production plants in 1918. He was a board member of the Association of National Work. He was a Knight (Chevalier) of the White Rose of Finland.

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.

Death

He died in the

1936 KLM Croydon accident The 1936 KLM Croydon accident was the crash of a KLM airliner on 9 December 1936, shortly after taking off from the Croydon Air Port (as it was known at the time) on a scheduled flight to Amsterdam, Netherlands. The aircraft was destroyed and ...

while on a business trip to England.

References

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