Gustaf Jansson

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gustaf Jansson (1952)

Gustaf Nils Jansson (born January 5, 1922 in Brattfors , Värmland , † April 11, 2012 in Karlstad ) was a Swedish athlete who was successful as a marathon runner in the early 1950s . The 1.78 m tall and 67 kg heavy athlete started for the IK Viking in Hagfors .

Career

Gustaf Jansson won a total of seven national championships between 1950 and 1953:

  • 1950: 25 km
  • 1951, 1952 and 1953: each over 25 km and in a marathon

In addition, he achieved top placements in the following races:

  • 2:42:48 h (2nd) on July 16, 1950 in Sala
  • 2: 29: 19.0 h (2nd) on August 3, 1951 in Tampere
  • 2:31:43 h (1st) on July 8, 1951 in Halmstad
  • 2: 26: 07.0 h (3rd) 1952 in Filipstad
  • 2:29:02 h (1st) on June 15, 1952 in Södertälje
  • 2:27:04 h (1st) on June 14, 1953 in Falköping
  • 2: 27: 27.8 h (5th) on August 25, 1954 in Bern
  • 2:31:58 h (3rd) on July 18, 1954 in Karlstad
  • 2: 31: 04.8 h (4th) on September 4, 1955 in Copenhagen
  • 2:21:40 h (41.1 km) (6th) on April 19, 1955 in Boston

He took part in the oldest European marathon, the Košice Marathon , three times and achieved the following placements:

  • 2nd place (2: 35: 12.4 h) 1950
  • 2nd place (2:27:27 h) 1954
  • 11th place (2:31:58 h) 1955

He celebrated his greatest success in 1952 when he took part in the Olympic Games in Helsinki with 65 other athletes, including Gustav Östling and Henry Norrström from Sweden .

After about half the distance, Emil Zátopek and Gustaf Jansson overtook the British Jim Peters (who later gave up the race). In the final phase Jansson could not follow the Czech, who won the gold medal in 2:23:04 h, and also had to let the Argentinean Reinaldo Gorno (silver in 2:25:35 h) go. However, he managed to save third place at the finish - with 2:26:07 h he was just under half a minute ahead of the South Korean Choi Yun-chil and won bronze.

Two years later, at the 1954 European Championships in Bern , he was able to almost repeat his time in Helsinki with 2:26:46 h. It brought him to 5th place (the Finn Veikko Karvonen won in 2:24:52 h).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gustaf Jansson ( Memento of the original from May 23, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , sok.se (swed.)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.sok.se
  2. ↑ OS-medaljör ur tiden , svd.se, April 19, 2012 (swed.)
personal data
SURNAME Jansson, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jansson, Gustaf Nils
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish athlete
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Brattfors , Varmland
DATE OF DEATH April 2012
Place of death Karlstad