Audun Boysen

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Audun Boysen

Audun Boysen (born May 10, 1929 in Bjarkøy ; † March 2, 2000 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian athlete who was successful in the middle distance in the 1950s. He won a total of three medals at the Olympic Games and European Championships.

From 1950 to 1958 (end of career) Boysen was consistently among the top ten of the world's best list over 800 m, in 1955 and 1956 even in second place. He started first for the club Rissa IL and then moved to IK Tjalve in Oslo. He won an Olympic bronze medal over 800 m as well as one silver and one bronze at European championships.

Boysen won the Norwegian championship nine times in a row:

year 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958
time 1: 52.7 1: 53.0 1: 53.0 1: 50.3 1: 52.8 1: 50.4 1: 51.8 1: 53.2 1: 50.2

He set three world records over the non-Olympic 1000 meter distance:

  • 2: 20.4 minutes on September 17, 1953 in Oslo
  • 2: 19.5 minutes on August 28, 1954 in Gävle
  • 2: 19.0 min. On August 30, 1955 in Gothenburg

With a time of 1: 45.9 minutes over 800 m, Boysen was the holder of the Norwegian national record for 37 years. He achieved this performance on August 4, 1955 in Oslo's Bislett Stadium. However, it was only enough for second place: The winner in the new world record time of 1: 45.7 minutes was Belgian Roger Moens . But Audun Boysen was still seven tenths of a second below the world record set by the German Rudolf Harbig . In the same year he won the election for Norway's Sportsman of the Year . In 1953 he was honored with the Morgenbladet gold medal.

Audun Boysen was not only known for his fast legs, but also for his "elbow technique", but in the end it did not bring him the longed-for win of a title either. It is true that Mike Rawson, who was victorious just ahead of Boysen, was initially disqualified at the 1958 European Championship in Bern because he had taken an evasive step into the interior and thus shortened the running distance in the target curve, being pressed by the Norwegian. A protest by the British was granted and Rawson was subsequently declared European champion. When Boysen, who had already returned to his native Oslo, found out about this from the newspaper, he sent his gold medal to Rawson.

In the course of his career he ran the 800 m 58 times under 1:50 minutes and 13 times under 1:48 minutes. In 1990 he was honored with the Bislett Medal. Boysen worked as an industrial psychologist for an industrial company in Oslo.

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SURNAME Boysen, Audun
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Norwegian athlete
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Bjarkøy
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 2000
Place of death Oslo