Claes Egnell

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Claes Egnell

Claes Robert Herman Vidarsson Egnell (born January 29, 1916 in Örebro , † January 15, 2012 in Falun ) was a Swedish modern pentathlon and marksman . He was a participant in Winter and Summer Olympics.

Life

For the first time Claes Egnell participated in Olympic Games in 1948 in St. Moritz in part. He was one of four Swedish participants - one of them the future Olympic champion in modern pentathlon , William Grut - in the demonstration competition Winter Pentathlon and the only one of the four who could not finish the competition after a broken leg as a result of an accident in downhill skiing . Until then it had been in fourth place. In the same year he started at the Summer Olympics in London in the rapid-fire pistol competition and reached 24th place there. At the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki he competed in the modern pentathlon . In the individual, he finished eleventh, together with Torsten Lindqvist and the Olympic champion in the individual, Lars Hall , he was able to win the silver medal in the team competition.

Egnells hometown club was I3 Idrottsförening, Örebro . The daily Nerikes Allehanda had awarded him the gold medal for the most famous personality of the sport in the province of Örebro as early as 1939 . In 1945 he was awarded the prestigious Svenska Dagbladet gold medal . The jury's reasoning was as follows

“ För två SM vunna efter hård kamp för att comma i kapp efter svår skada. "

"For two Swedish championships after a tough battle to return after a serious injury."

He was connected to the modern pentathlon until the end, including being a guest of honor at the World Cup final in the modern pentathlon 2005 in Uppsala . He lived in Falun until his death .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Claes Egnell har avlidit
  2. ↑ Guldolympier från Boda (Swedish)
  3. ↑ Report Général sur les V es Jeux Olympiques d'hiver St-Moritz 1948 PDF, pages 72–74 (French)
  4. ↑ Swedish Olympic Committee Portrait of Claes Egnell ( Memento of the original from January 14, 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sok.se
  5. ↑ Svenska Idrottsgalan (Swedish) ( Memento from January 8, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (archived in the Internet Archive )
  6. ↑ Monthly UIPM Newsletter ( Memento of the original from January 6th, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. PDF, (English)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pentathlongb.org
personal data
SURNAME Egnell, Claes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Egnell, Claes Robert Herman Vidarsson (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish modern pentathlon
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1916
PLACE OF BIRTH Örebro
DATE OF DEATH January 15, 2012
Place of death Falun