• Source: Huvi Tuiskunen

    • Huvi Hjalmar Tuiskunen (22 July 1872 – 31 March 1930) was a Finnish sport shooter who competed at the 1908 and 1912 Summer Olympics and won a Finnish championship in 1907.


    Shooting



    He received the first Finnish national championship gold in shooting when he won the 300 metre free rifle event in 1907.
    He represented the club Suomen Metsästysyhdistys.
    He was at the constituting meeting of the Finnish Shooting Sport Federation.


    Personal


    He was born in Luhtikylä, Orimattila. He moved to a farm in Helsinki in 1898. He moved to open a sports utility shop in Lahti in 1922.
    He maintained a link to his family by having a summer villa drawn by Lars Sonck built in Luhtikylä.
    He was killed by an accidental discharge of a pistol he was about to clean. He was survived by a wife, a son, and an adopted daughter.
    He is buried in the Mustankallio cemetery in Lahti.
    He is related to shooters Matti Nummela and Helena Juppala.


    Sources


    Huvi Tuiskunen at Olympedia (archive)
    Siukonen, Markku (2001). Urheilukunniamme puolustajat. Suomen olympiaedustajat 1906–2000. Suuri olympiateos (in Finnish). Jyväskylä: Graface. p. 341. ISBN 951-98673-1-7.


    References




    External links


    Huvi Tuiskunen at ISSF
    Huvi Tuiskunen at Olympedia

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