Johannes Siir (11 May 1889 – 18 January 1941) was an

Estonia Estonia, officially the Republic of Estonia, is a country in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the Baltic Sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, and to the east by Ru ...

n military colonel and sport shooter. He was born in

Kolga Kolga () is a small borough () in Kuusalu Parish, Harju County, in northern Estonia, on the territory of Lahemaa National Park. It has a population of 490 (). Kolga is best known for its classicist Classics, also classical studies or Anci ...

Rural Municipality, Harju County. He participated in World War I and the

Estonian War of Independence The Estonian War of Independence, also known as the War of Freedom in Estonia, was a defensive campaign of the Estonian Army and its allies, most notably the United Kingdom, against the Soviet Russian westward offensive of 1918–1919 and the ...

. In 1933 he graduated from Tondi military school. He won bronze medal at 1931 ISSF World Shooting Championships; being the first Estonian sport shooter to get a medal at world shooting championships. 1931 he was a member of Estonian national sport shooting team. 1932–1939 he was the manager of Estonian team.

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1889 births 1941 deaths Estonian male sport shooters Estonian military personnel of World War I Estonian military personnel of the Estonian War of Independence Recipients of the Military Order of the Cross of the Eagle, Class III 20th-century Estonian military personnel People from Kuusalu Parish Sportspeople from Harju County {{Estonia-sportshooting-bio-stub