Voitto Kolho

Voitto Kolho medal table
Voitto Kolho (1927)
Sport shooting
Finland
Olympic Summer Games
bronze	Antwerp 1920	AG horizontal 300 m (M)

Voitto Valdemar Kolho (born February 6, 1885 in Keuruu as Voitto Saxberg , † October 4, 1963 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish marksman .

successes

Voitto Kolho took part in four Olympic Games . 1908 in London and 1912 in Stockholm , he joined each with the Free Rifle Three Positions in both the individual and the team competition, but only reached rankings in midfield. At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 he won the bronze medal in the prone position with the army rifle in the team competition alongside Kaarlo Lappalainen , Veli Nieminen , Vilho Vauhkonen and Magnus Wegelius . In the three-position fight with the free rifle, however, he missed winning a medal as fourth with the team. In another four disciplines Kolho managed a top ten placement. In 1924 Kolho remained without a medal, with the free rifle he achieved his best result with fifth place in the team competition.

His brothers Lauri and Yrjö Kolho were also Olympic sport shooters. Voitto Kolho completed a mechanical engineering degree at the Helsinki University of Technology in 1912 and then worked as an engineer at a shipyard, a pulp mill and in the wood industry. From 1926 he worked for Enso and in 1935 was appointed to the board of the Enso-Gutzeit Group. In 1950 he retired. The previous year he had received an honorary doctorate from the Helsinki University of Technology. Kolho was an expert on classical violins . He had his own collection, which included a Stradivarius and a Guarneri , and was one of the founding members of the Violin Makers Association , of which he later became president.

Web links

• Voitto Kolho in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )