Gösta Åsbrink
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| gold | London 1908 | Gymnastics, team |
| silver | Stockholm 1912 | Modern pentathlon |
Karl Gösta Åsbrink (born November 18, 1881 in Lovö, Ekerö municipality , † April 19, 1966 in Stockholm ) was a Swedish athlete who was active in apparatus gymnastics and modern pentathlon .
He started at the Summer Olympics in London in 1908 with the Swedish gymnastics team, with which he became Olympic champion in the all- around competition. Four years later at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, the city of his birth, he won the silver medal in the modern pentathlon, completing the three-fold Swedish success in this discipline, which was held at the Olympic Games for the first time, behind the winner Gösta Lilliehöök and ahead of third-placed Georg de Laval .
Web links
- Gösta Åsbrink in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- www.sok.se - Gösta Åsbrink (Swedish, with picture)
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| SURNAME | Åsbrink, Gösta |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Åsbrink, Gösta Karl |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 18, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Lovö, Ekerö municipality |
| DATE OF DEATH | April 19, 1966 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |