Magnus Wegelius


Karl Magnus Wegelius 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

GamesSportEventRankNotes
1908 Summer OlympicsGymnasticsMen's team3rdSource:
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting300 metre free rifle, three positions37th–Exact rank unknown
1920 Summer OlympicsShootingTeam free rifle4th
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting300 metre team military rifle, prone3rd
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting300 metre military rifle, standing11th–Exact rank unknown
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting300 metre team military rifle, standing7th
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting600 metre military rifle, prone11th
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting600 metre team military rifle, prone8th
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting300 and 600 metre team military rifle, prone10th
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting100 meter team running deer, single shots2nd
1920 Summer OlympicsShooting100 metre team running deer, double shots3rd
1924 Summer OlympicsShooting100 meter running deer, single shots12th
1924 Summer OlympicsShooting100 meter team running deer, single shots5th
1924 Summer OlympicsShooting100 meter running deer, double shots7th
1924 Summer OlympicsShooting100 meter team running deer, double shots4th
1924 Summer OlympicsShootingTeam clay pigeons3rd

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.

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.
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 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.