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 + Magnus Wegelius at the Olympic GamesGamesSportEventRankNotes1908 Summer OlympicsGymnasticsMen's team 3rd Source:1920 Summer OlympicsShooting 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 3rd1924 Summer OlympicsShooting 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: 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.
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 (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 while on a business trip to England.
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