Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (Modern Pentathlon)

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Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1932)
Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (1932)

Modern pentathlon

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gold Los Angeles 1932 singles

Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa (born  August 28, 1899 in Stockholm ; †  July 18, 1995 in Täby ) was a senior member of the Swedish Navy and a successful athlete in modern pentathlon .

He completed his training as a naval officer in 1920 and entered the Swedish Navy in the same year, in which he was promoted to captain in the course of his career . From 1932 to 1933 he worked as a naval attaché in Paris , from 1942 he was a defense attaché in London . In 1954 he retired.

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he won the gold medal in the modern pentathlon.

Johan Oxenstierna was married twice, in 1922 and 1946, and had two sons and a daughter with his first wife.

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SURNAME Oxenstierna, Johan Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish modern pentathlon
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1899
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm
DATE OF DEATH July 18, 1995
Place of death Taby