At the Swedish Championships in 1954 Erlandsson, who started for the Arvika IS , won the gold medal in the individual competition. A little later, at the Nordic World Ski Championships 1954 in Sweden's Falun reached Erlandsson after jumps of 72 and 76 meters in eleventh place.
↑ Erling Erlandsson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ), accessed on January 4, 2020. Erlandsson was listed in the Olympic database Sports-Reference.com until around 2014 with an Olympic participation in ski jumping in 1956. After the Olympic participation has been removed from his profile, it is no longer maintained. The life data are nevertheless taken from this source.