Åke Lundeberg

Åke Lundeberg
Åke Lundeberg (1912)
nation	Sweden
birthday	December 14, 1888
place of birth	Gävle
date of death	May 29, 1939
Place of death	Gävle
Career
discipline	Trap , running deer
society	Örebro SF
Medal table
Olympic medals 2 × 1 × 0 ×

Åke Lundeberg (born December 14, 1888 in Gävle ; † May 29, 1939 there ) was a Swedish sports shooter .

successes

Åke Lundeberg took part in the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm . In the trap , he finished 20th in the individual ranking, while he just missed a medal win with the team in fourth. The competitions in the running stag were more successful : in the single shot competition he scored 41 points, so that there was a jump-off between him and the tied Alfred Swahn and Nestori Toivonen . Lundeberg managed 17 goals in this, three fewer than Swahn, but six more than Toivonen, with which he won the silver medal. Lundeberg became Olympic champion in both the single-shot team classification and the double-shot classification . With 151 points, the Swedish team, whose shooters had occupied top places in the individual ratings and were therefore considered favorites in the competition, 19 goals ahead of the US team. In the double shot he achieved a new Olympic record with 79 points.

Lundeberg was a military officer and forest manager. During the Olympic Games in 1912 he worked at the state forest school in Kloten .

Web links

Commons : Åke Lundeberg  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Åke Lundeberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Åke Lundeberg on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Åke Lundeberg at the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (Swedish, with picture)