Johan Erik Friborg

Johan Erik Friborg

To person
Date of birth	January 24, 1893
date of death	May 22, 1968
nation	Sweden
discipline	Street
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	SK iter
Most important successes
Olympic games Olympic champion team competition 1912

Johan Erik Friborg (born January 24, 1893 in Stockholm , † May 22, 1968 in London , United Kingdom ) was a Swedish cyclist and Olympic champion in cycling .

Athletic career

Friborg was with the team of Sweden at the Olympic Summer Games in Stockholm in 1912 Olympic champion in the team competition in road races . Ragnar Malm , Axel Wilhelm Persson and Algot Lönn drove with him for Sweden . The times of the athletes were taken from the individual time trial , where Friborg was classified in 7th place of the race.

In the year of his Olympic victory , he also won the Sjælland Tour in Denmark in front of his compatriot Henrik Morén . In 1911 he won the Swedish championship in the individual time trial over 100 kilometers.

Private

At the Olympic Summer Games in 1920 and 1948 he took part as a masseur in the Swedish team, and at the 1924 Games he was there as an interpreter . In the early 1940s he moved to London, where he died at the age of 75 in the Hounslow district .

Web links

• Johan Erik Friborg in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Johan Erik Friborg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Erik Friborg - Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté. In: sok.se. Retrieved May 9, 2020 (Swedish).