Gunnar Skold

Alf Gunnar Sköld (born September 24, 1894 in Västerås , † June 24, 1971 ibid) was a Swedish cyclist and world champion.

1921 Gunnar Sköld in Copenhagen the first world champion of amateurs . In the same year he was Scandinavian time trial champion . In 1923 he was again Scandinavian champion in the team classification and finished second in the individual time trial. In the same year he won the one-day race in Vastgötaborg , in which Cologne's Peter Rösen was third. In 1924 and 1925 he won Around Mälaren , the most important road race in Sweden at the time, and finished third in 1921 and 1923.

In 1924 Sköld started at the Olympic Games in Paris . He won the bronze medal in the team classification of the road race and fourth in the individual classification.

Web links

Gunnar Sköld in the Radsportseiten.net database

Gunnar Sköld in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 14 .

personal data
SURNAME	Skold, Gunnar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Sköld, Alf Gunnar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish cyclist and world champion
DATE OF BIRTH	September 24, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH	Västerås
DATE OF DEATH	June 24, 1971
Place of death	Västerås

[1] Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 8/1962 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 14 .