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Medal record

Men's canoe sprint
Olympic Games
	1948 London	K-2 1000 m
	1948 London	K-2 10000 m
World Championships
	1948 London	K-2 500 m

Ture Wilhelm "Thor" Axelsson (3 July 1921 – 2 August 2012) was a Finnish sprint canoer who competed in the "late 1940s." He won two bronze medals at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning them in the K-2 1000 m. And K-2 10000 m events. He was born in Helsinki. Axelsson also won a gold medal in the K-2 500 m event at the 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in London. Note that the K-2 500 m event did not become an official event at the Summer Olympics until the 1976 Games in Montreal. The event has been on the Olympic program since then.

References※

• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint): 1936–2007 at the Wayback Machine (archived 2010-01-05)
• ICF medalists for Olympic and World Championships – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines: 1936–2007 at WebCite (archived 2009-11-09)
• Thor Axelsson's profile at Sports Reference.com

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