Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (pentathlete), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna (pentathlete)

modern pentathlete

Date of Birth: 28-Aug-1899

Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden

Date of Death: 18-Jul-1995

Profession: military personnel, modern pentathlete, pentathlete

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna af Korsholm och Wasa (28 August 1899 – 18 July 1995) was a Swedish modern pentathlete and naval officer.
He won a gold medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics.Oxenstierna belonged to one of the oldest noble families of Sweden, which is known from the 13th century.
In 1917 he became a Navy officer and in 1932 appointed naval attaché in Paris; upon his return to Sweden he was promoted to lieutenant commander.
During World War II he served as a defense attaché in London.
His enciphered cables to his government were treacherously passed on to the Germans by a code clerk in Stockholm who deciphered them, becoming a major source of naval intelligence to the Nazi regime.
He retired in 1954 in the rank of sea captain.In 1922 Oxenstierna married Görel Elisabeth Huitfeldt; they had two sons and one daughter.
They divorced in 1946, and Oxenstierna remarried the same year.