Viktor Platan

{{short description|Finnish modern pentathlete}}

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| birth_place = Lappeenranta, Finland

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{{MedalCompetition|World Modern Pentathlon Championships}}

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Viktor Platan (16 October 1919 — 12 January 2013){{cite news|url = http://www.hs.fi/paivanlehti/urheilu/Vanhimmat+olympiak%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t/a1358401107068|title = Vanhimmat olympiakävijät|language = Finnish|date = 18 January 2013|work = Helsingin Sanomat|access-date = 7 February 2013|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150215102734/http://www.hs.fi/paivanlehti/urheilu/Vanhimmat%2Bolympiak%C3%A4vij%C3%A4t/a1358401107068|archive-date = 15 February 2015|url-status=dead|df = dmy-all}} was a Finnish pentathlete. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished 10th in a field of 45 participants in the individual event. He also finished 13th among 14 athletes in the winter pentathlon demonstration event at the 1948 Winter Olympics, after failing to complete the program.{{cite web|last = Gjerde|first = Arild|author2=Jeroen Heijmans |author3=Bill Mallon |author4=Hilary Evans |title = Viktor Platan Biography and Olympic Results|work = Olympics|publisher = Sports Reference.com|date = 27 March 2012|url = https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pl/viktor-platan-1.html|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20200417182012/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pl/viktor-platan-1.html|url-status = dead|archive-date = 17 April 2020|accessdate = 3 April 2012}} He then competed at the 1949, 1950, and 1951 World Modern Pentathlon Championships, winning silver medals with the Finnish team in each and an individual bronze medal in 1949.{{cite web|title = WORLD MODERN PENTATHLON CHAMPIONSHIPS|work = gbrathletics.com| publisher = Athletics Weekly|year = 2005|url = http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/pent.htm|accessdate = 3 April 2012}} He was born in Lappeenranta.