Gunnar Sund

Gunnar Rafael Sund, born in Helsinki on 6 January 1895 and died on 18 March 1962, was a Finnish Jäger sergeant, a captain in the Estonian army and a ten-pin bowling world champion. With Lauri Virtanen, Sund won the doubles world championship in Stockholm in 1926, Finland's first world title in bowling, as the American pair Jarret and Fliger finished ten points behind, 1562 to 1552. In the individual event at the 1929 world championships Sund finished 16th. Sund bowled for Helsingin IFK, sailed competitively with the Finnish Yacht Club from the late 1930s to the 1950s, officiated at boxing and athletics from the 1930s, timed events at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics and refereed three international football matches. Earlier military service covered German Jäger training in the First World War, the Finnish Civil War and Estonia's war of independence.