Career
He competed for Finland in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden, in both the regular and two-handed javelin throw, a one-time Olympic event in which the total was counted as a sum of best throws with the right hand and with the left hand. His personal best, set in Helsinki in 1916, was 64.35 m. This was superior to Lemming"s official world record at the time of 62.32 m, but was never ratified by IAAF as a new world record.
However, it was ratified as a Finnish record.