Pauli Janhonen

Pauli Janhonen medal table
Sport shooting
Finland
Olympic games
silver	London 1948	FG three position fight 300 m
World championships
bronze	Lucerne 1939	FG three position fight 300 m
silver	Lucerne 1939	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
gold	Lucerne 1939	KK standing 50 m (M)
gold	Stockholm 1947	FG three position fight 300 m
bronze	Stockholm 1947	FG kneeling 300 m
bronze	Stockholm 1947	FG standing 300 m
silver	Stockholm 1947	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
bronze	Stockholm 1947	KK standing 50 m (M)
silver	Buenos Aires 1949	KK lying 50 m (M)
silver	Buenos Aires 1949	FG three position fight 300 m
silver	Buenos Aires 1949	FG standing 300 m
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	KK three position fight 50 m
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	KK standing 50 m
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
gold	Buenos Aires 1949	KK three position fight 50 m (M)
silver	Buenos Aires 1949	AG argentinian 300 m (M)
bronze	Oslo 1952	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
silver	Oslo 1952	KK standing 50 m (M)
silver	Moscow 1958	FG three position fight 300 m (M)
bronze	Moscow 1958	SG three position fight 300 m (M)
bronze	Moscow 1958	KK standing 50 m (M)
silver	Moscow 1958	KK lying 50 + 100 m (M)
bronze	Moscow 1958	AG three position fight 300 m (M)
gold	Cairo 1962	SG three position fight 300 m
gold	Cairo 1962	AG three position fight 300 m
bronze	Cairo 1962	SG three position fight 300 m (M)
bronze	Cairo 1962	AG three position fight 300 m (M)
gold	Thun 1974	KK lying 50 m (M)

Pauli Aapeli Janhonen (born October 20, 1914 in Jyväskylä ; † November 30, 2007 there ) was a Finnish sports shooter .

successes

Pauli Janhonen took part in three Olympic Games . 1948 he finished in London with the Free Rifle Three Positions in more than 300 meters behind Emil Grünig second place and thus won the silver medal. Four years later he finished the competition in this discipline in Helsinki in twelfth place. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 , he competed in a three-position battle with the small bore rifle over 50 m, which he finished in 13th place.

Janhonen secured a total of 28 medals at world championships between 1939 and 1974 and was world champion nine times. In 1939 he won his first world championship title in Lucerne when he took first place with the small-bore team in standing position. Eight years later, he won the second title in a three-position fight with the free rifle in Stockholm , which he followed in 1949 in Buenos Aires with gold medals in the three-position fight and in the standing position with the small-bore rifle. He also won the team competitions in the three-position fight with the free rifle and with the small caliber. Also in the three-position fight, Janhonen was again world champion in Cairo in 1962 , each with the standard rifle and the army rifle. He won his ninth title in Thun in 1974 in a lying position with the small-bore team. In addition to the nine gold medals, Janhonen also won nine silver and ten bronze medals.

Web links

• Pauli Janhonen in the database of the International Shooting Sport Federation (English)
• Pauli Janhonen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Shooting at the 1948 London Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (English). 
2. ↑ Shooting at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Free Rifle, Three Positions, 300 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (English). 
3. ^ Shooting at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Small-Bore Rifle, Three Positions, 50 meters. In: sports-reference.com. Retrieved January 22, 2020 (English).