Edward Lindberg

Edward Lindberg
Edward Lindberg (2nd from left) with the US season
Full name	Edward Ferdinand Jacob Lindberg
nation	United States
birthday	November 9, 1886
place of birth	Cherokee ,  USA
size	177 cm
Weight	76 kg
date of death	February 16, 1978
Place of death	Highland Park , USA
Career
discipline	sprint
Best performance	400 m: 48.4 s
society	Chicago AA
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold London 1912 4 × 400 m bronze London 1912 400 m

Edward Ferdinand Jacob Lindberg (born November 9, 1886 in Cherokee , Iowa , † February 16, 1978 in Highland Park , Illinois ) was an American athlete and Olympic champion .

He grew up in his native Cherikee, the son of a family who immigrated from Sweden . In 1909 and 1911 he won the AAU championships over 440 yards each , which qualified him for participation in the upcoming Olympiad.

At the 5th Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 , he won the bronze medal in the 400-meter run , behind the American Charles Reidpath (gold) and the German Hanns Braun (silver) as well as the team gold medal in the 4-by-400-meter Relay race , together with his teammates Mel Sheppard , Ted Meredith and Charles Reidpath, in front of the teams from France (silver) and Great Britain (bronze). At the same time, the team set a new world record with a time of 3: 16.6 minutes.

Web links

• Edward Lindberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )