Nestori Toivonen
| Nestori Toivonen medal table |
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| Olympic games | ||
| bronze | 1912 Stockholm | Running deer 100 m single shot |
| bronze | 1912 Stockholm | Running stag 100 m single shot team |
| silver | 1920 Antwerp | Running stag single shot team |
| bronze | 1920 Antwerp | Running stag double shot team |
Nestor Kallenpoika "Nestori" Toivonen (born March 25, 1865 in Kuorevesi , † April 6, 1927 in Sakkola ) was a Finnish marksman .
At the 1912 Summer Olympics , he won two bronze medals, one of them in the running deer 100 m single shot and one in the same discipline with the team. In 1920 he received a silver medal in the running deer single-shot team at the Summer Olympics in Antwerp . In addition, he reached third place in the running deer double shot in the team competition .
Toivonen died in April 1927 in the Finnish city of Sakkola, which fell to Russia after the Second World War in 1944 and was renamed Gromowo.
Web links
- Nestori Toivonen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Toivonen, Nestori |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Toivonen, Nestor Kallenpoika (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish marksman |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1865 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuorevesi |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 6, 1927 |
| Place of death | Sakkola |