Carl Albert Andersen

Carl Albert Andersen medal table
Athletics gymnastics
Norway
Olympic games
bronze	1900 Paris	Pole vault
gold	1906 Athens	Gymnastics team
silver	1908 London	Gymnastics team

Carl Albert "Flisa" Andersen (born August 15, 1876 in Østre Aker , † September 28, 1951 in Oslo ) was a Norwegian athlete and gymnast who was successful at the beginning of the 20th century. He took part in three Olympic Games: 1900 in Paris , 1906 in Athens and 1908 in London .

• In Paris he competed in the two jumping competitions - high jump and pole vault . In the pole vault he won 3.20 m BRONZE behind the two Americans Irving Baxter (gold with 3.30 m) and Meredith Colket (silver with 3.25 m), and in the high jump he came with a performance of 1, 70 m in fourth place (third place, the Hungarian Lajos Gonczy , jumped 5 cm higher).
• He was not at the start at the 1904 Olympic Games in St. Louis .
• Andersen took part in Athens and London as a member of the Norwegian gymnastics team and won GOLD and SILVER each.

He also won six state championships in high and pole vault:

year	1896		1897		1900
height	2.65	1.60	2.90	1.67	3.10	1.65

Since his name no longer appears among the top three winners of the Norwegian athletics championships after 1900, it can be assumed that he finally switched to gymnastics from this point in time.

Web links

• Carl Albert Andersen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )