Väinö Elias Bremer (24 April 1899 – 23 December 1964) was a Finnish

biathlete The biathlon is a winter sport that combines cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. It is treated as a race, with contestants skiing through a cross-country trail whose distance is divided into shooting rounds. The shooting rounds are not ti ...

, modern pentathlete, and pilot who competed in the

1924 Winter Olympics The 1924 Winter Olympics, officially known as the I Olympic Winter Games () and commonly known as Chamonix 1924 (), were a winter multi-sport event which was held in 1924 in Chamonix, France. Originally held in association with the 1924 Summer ...

and in the

1924 Summer Olympics The 1924 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the VIII Olympiad () and officially branded as Paris 1924, were an international multi-sport event held in Paris, France. The opening ceremony was held on 5 July, but some competitions had al ...

. He was born in

Turku Turku ( ; ; , ) is a city in Finland and the regional capital of Southwest Finland. It is located on the southwestern coast of the country at the mouth of the Aura River (Finland), River Aura. The population of Turku is approximately , while t ...

. In 1924 Winter Games he was a member of the Finnish

military patrol Military patrol is a team winter sport in which athletes compete in cross-country skiing (sport), cross-country skiing and rifle shooting. Formerly ski mountaineering was also part of the sport. It is usually contested between countries or milit ...

team which won the silver medal. He also competed in the 1924 Summer Games and finished seventh in the Modern pentathlon event. After Olympic competition Bremer pursued aviation, including as a captain in the

Finnish Air Force The Finnish Air Force (FAF or FiAF; ; ) is one of the branches of the Finnish Defence Forces. Its peacetime tasks are airspace surveillance, identification flights, and production of readiness formations for wartime conditions. The Finnish Air ...

. In 1927 he won the Finnish

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. He flew from Helsinki to Cape Town and back in 1933 in a Junkers A50 Junior, which was displayed in the

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from 1976 to 2018. He was killed in a plane crash in

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, Finland, on 23 December 1964.

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* 1899 births 1964 deaths Aviation pioneers Aviators killed in aviation accidents or incidents in Finland Finnish male modern pentathletes Finnish military aviators Finnish military patrol (sport) runners Mountain climbers from the Russian Empire Olympic biathletes for Finland Olympic modern pentathletes for Finland Military patrol competitors at the 1924 Winter Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Finland Medalists at the 1924 Winter Olympics Sportspeople from Turku {{Skimountaineering-bio-stub Victims of aviation accidents or incidents in 1964