Emil Hagelberg Explained

Emil Hagelberg
Full Name:Emil Alfons Hagelberg
Birth Date:25 August 1895
Birth Place:Pyhtää, Finland
Death Place:Varloi, Kareliya, Russia
Sport:Modern pentathlon
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Emil Alfons Hagelberg (25 August 1895  - 12 August 1941) was a Finnish modern pentathlete.[1] He competed at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics and placed seventh and 25th, respectively.[2] He served as the Olympic flag bearer for Finland in 1920.[3]

Hagelberg was a career military officer who fought in World War I and the Finnish Civil War, on the side of the Whites. He died in a Soviet air raid during the Continuation War in 1941.[4] [5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Emil Hagelberg . Olympedia . 26 August 2021.
  2. Emil Hagelberg . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417054454/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/emil-hagelberg-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 21 June 2012 .
  3. Finland . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417040833/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/FIN/ . 17 April 2020.
  4. Sotatieteen Laitoksen Julkaisuja XIV, Suomen jääkärien elämäkerrasto 1975, Vaasa 1975,
  5. Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 . dead . 17 April 2020 . 24 July 2018 .

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