Carl Pahlin

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Carl Pahlin Cross-country skiing
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday January 28, 1915
place of birth Köja , Bjärtrå ,  SwedenSwedenSweden 
date of death January 5, 2010
Place of death Lugnvik , Ostersund ,  SwedenSwedenSweden 
Career
job Carpenter
Medal table
World Cup medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
National medals 2 × gold ? ×silver ? ×bronze
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
silver 1939 Zakopane Season
bronze 1939 Zakopane 18 km
Swedish Ski Association Swedish championships
gold 1938 Season
gold 1940 Season
 

Carl "Calle" Pahlin (born January 28, 1915 in Köja , Bjärtrå ; † January 5, 2010 in Lugnvik , Östersund ) was a Swedish cross-country skier .

Athletic career

Pahlin started skiing at a young age at the local sports club in Köja. At the age of 13, he surprised people in a competition for young talent, in which he overtook older runners and ultimately won. As a result, he was used regularly in regional and national elimination competitions and sent as a substitute to the Swedish championships. He celebrated his breakthrough in 1933 in Härnösand , where he defeated the Swedish junior champion Gustav Jonsson .

In 1938 he won the Swedish Championships with the relay and thus secured his first national title. A little later he traveled to the Nordic World Ski Championships 1938 in the Finnish Lahti , where he km by 18 reached a good seventh place. A year later at the World Championships in Zakopane in 1939 he won the bronze medal over the 18 km individual distance together with Alvar Hägglund , Selm Stenvall and John Westbergh, the silver medal behind the Finnish team. In 1940 Pahlin won his second national season title.

At the World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo in 1941 , he again won bronze with the relay. After the decision of the International Ski Association in 1946, these were declared invalid, whereupon they lost their official character.

Pahlin competed in the Wasalauf seven times , with a sixth place being his best result.

Family and private

Pahlin was born as one of several children of a ski-loving family in Köja, a part of the Swedish municipality of Bjärtrå . His parents owned a farm and his father worked in the local sawmill. There Pahlin began to work after school as well. After completing his service with the Swedish Navy, he worked as a carpenter in Nordlander and Höglund. After his sporting career, he opened a sports shop in Lugnvik .

In 1937 Pahlin married Anna Åslund in Lugnvik, but she died in 1959. His second marriage was to Elsa Wiklund from Sandslån, who died in 1995. With both wives he had three daughters, Anita, Carol and Jeanette.

Pahlin continued to ski well into old age. It wasn't until he was 85 that he had to end his passion for health reasons.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Se hela schemat: Langd.se: Svenska mästare genom tiderna. In: langd.se. Retrieved September 20, 2015 (Swedish).
  2. ↑ Längdskidor Sverige. In: sporthistoria.se. Retrieved September 20, 2015 .
  3. ^ Hermann Hansen, Knut Sveen: VM på ski '97. Alt om ski-VM 1925-1997. Adresseavisens Forlag, Trondheim 1996, ISBN 82-7164-044-5 .
  4. ↑ Sporditulemused - Sportlased - Carl Pahlin. In: spordiinfo.ee. February 15, 1939, accessed September 20, 2015 .
personal data
SURNAME Pahlin, Carl
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pahlin, Calle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH January 28, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Köja , Bjärtrå , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH January 5, 2010
Place of death Lugnvik , Ostersund , Sweden