Jalmari Sauli
Finnish athlete and writer
Jalmari Verneri Sauli (born Hjalmar Verner Saxelin; 17 August 1889 – 22 April 1957) was a Finnish writer and track and field athlete who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics.
Athletics
Olympics
Sauli entered five events at the 1908 Olympics.
Records
Sauli posted 25.38 metres in two-handed shot put in Stockholm on 13 September 1908. This was declared a world record.
Sauli became the first Finn to exceed 14 metres in shot put when he put 14.06 metres on 5 September 1908.
White Guard
Sauli joined the Mänttä White Guard as it was taking form in November 1917 and became its chief of logistics. He was wounded in the Finnish Civil War. He was the local chief of Mänttä White Guard in 1919–1921, and a member of staff of North Tavastia White Guard District in 1920.
He was the editor-in-chief of the White Guard magazine Varsinais-Suomen vartio.
Writer
Sauli was the assistant editor-in-chief of Aamulehti in 1911–1914.
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