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Lennart Hannelius

sport shooter (1893-1950)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ3425383 ↗
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Lennart Vilhelm Hannelius (8 November 1893 – 4 May 1950) was a Finnish sport shooter who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. He won the bronze medal in the 25 m rapid fire pistol event.

He led the Finnish shooting team at the 1927 World Shooting Championships in Rome.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1893, 1950, 1924, 1927—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-11-08. The account is most persuasive where Lennart, Hannelius and sport can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Lennart Hannelius” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.