Väinö Sigell

Väinö Sigell, born in Helsinki on 18 September 1879 and died there on 11 February 1964, was a Finnish track and field athlete and ten-pin bowler. In 1903 Sigell won the second sports kingship held in Finland, a multi-event contest that preceded the decathlon, having taken part in the first one in 1902. In the 1920s Sigell did well as a bowler, finishing sixth in the individual event at the 1926 world championships and winning bronze in 1929, and won the individual championship of the Helsinki Bowling Federation, the forerunner of the Finnish Bowling Federation, in 1928 and 1929. By profession Sigell was a procurator at the Academic Bookstore until retiring in 1951.