Väinö Markkanen

Väinö Markkanen medal table
Sport shooting
Finland
Olympic games
gold	Tokyo 1964	Free pistol 50 m
World championships
bronze	Thun 1974	Large caliber pistol (M)

Väinö Johannes Markkanen (born October 2, 1907 in Paltamo ) is a former Finnish sports shooter .

successes

Väinö Markkanen took part in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 in the free pistol discipline . With 560 points, he set the existing Olympic record and became Olympic champion ahead of Franklin Green and Yoshihisa Yoshikawa . At world championships in 1974 in Thun , Markkanen won bronze with the large-caliber pistol in the team competition.

Web links

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