Bertil Haase

Bertil Haase medal table
Sweden
Olympic games
bronze	1948	Winter pentathlon

Bertil Robert Herman Vidarsson Haase (born June 5, 1923 in Uppsala , † July 7, 2014 in Fagersta ) was a Swedish modern pentathlete . He was a participant in Winter and Summer Olympics.

As a volunteer in the Swedish army, he attended a non-commissioned officer school (Swedish: volontär-, konstapel- och furirskola, furir ) and was able to intensify his sporting activities there. In 1948 he took part with Claes Egnell , William Grut and Gustaf Lindh in the winter pentathlon at the Winter Olympics in St. Moritz . After two discipline victories in downhill and cross-country skiing , he finished third behind Lindh and Grut and won the bronze medal.

Since the winter pentathlon remained a unique phenomenon at the Olympic Games, Haase turned to the modern pentathlon . Although he was a moderate marksman , he was a good fencer , running and swimming were also some of his strengths. In 1956 he was nominated for the Summer Olympics in Melbourne and competed in the modern pentathlon. In the individual, he took seventeenth place. Together with the Olympic champions in singles, Lars Hall and Björn Thofelt , he also formed the Swedish team, which was in the lead after three disciplines.

Haase was also successful at world championships in modern pentathlon. In the team he secured the title in Bern in 1950 together with Lars Hall and Thor Henning , in 1954 in Budapest he was third with Åke Julin and Björn Thofelt.

Haase's hometown club was Stockholm's Studenternas Idrottsförening . He completed an engineering degree at KTH Stockholm with a focus on metallurgy and then worked in the metallurgical industry in Fagersta , where he still lives today.

Bertil Haase took part in 1979, like all Swedish participants in the Winter Pentathlon and many of the Modern Pentathletes from the 1950s, in a senior competition in Budapest.

Web links

• Bertil Haase in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Guldolympier från Boda (Swedish)
2. ↑ Report Général sur les V ^es Jeux Olympiques d'hiver St-Moritz 1948 PDF, pages 72–74 (French)
3. ↑ Swedish Olympic Committee Portrait of Bertil Haase ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.