Hugo Wieslander, Swedish decathlete (died 1976)

Hugo Wieslander

Swedish track and field athlete

Karl Hugo Wieslander was a Swedish athlete. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg in 1911 with a score of 5516 points. The following year, he finished second in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, 688 points behind Jim Thorpe. In…