Nestori Toivonen

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Nestori Toivonen medal table

Marksman

Finland
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