Gustaf Lindh

Gustaf Lindh medal table

Sweden Sweden
Olympic games
gold	1948	Winter pentathlon

Gustaf Allan Lindh (born May 21, 1926 in Liden , Sundsvall municipality , † September 3, 2015 ) was a Swedish modern pentathlon in the winter pentathlon.

Gustaf Lindh was the first and only Olympic champion in the Winter Pentathlon . This competition was only part of the program at the 1948 Olympic Games in St. Moritz . Sweden provided four participants, including the future Olympic champion in modern pentathlon , William Grut . Grut, Claes Egnell and Bertil Haase were sometimes more than ten years older and were the dominant athletes in the winter pentathlon at the time, but Lindh was still able to prevail against the favorites. He won the shooting and the final riding and only had a bad result in sixth place in the downhill race. His teammate Haase won the two ski disciplines in downhill and 10 km cross-country skiing, but was weaker in shooting , fencing and riding . Grut showed balanced performances in all disciplines, but Lindh prevailed with one point ahead of him and Haase. The fourth Swede, Egnell, broke his leg on the descent and had to give up the competition lying in fourth place.

Like the other participants, Lindh was also a member of the army. At the age of seventeen he had enlisted in the army in Ostersund , as there was hardly any training place to be found during wartime . As a volunteer for a NCO career ( Furir ) he was offered good winter sports opportunities there. In his third competition in the Winter Pentathlon, he won the Swedish championship in 1946 and thus qualified for the Olympic Games. In autumn 1948 he finished his military service, began training in the field of energy technology at the Tekniska Fackskolan (technical college) in Sundsvall and then worked as a designer for high-voltage lines . In addition, he was still active in sports, but suffered a double broken jaw in a riding accident in Stockholm in 1954 . After this accident, he had to end his career.

Lindh spent a few years in the United States and lived in Viksjö , Järfälla northwest of Stockholm from around 1970 .

Individual evidence

↑ The life data of Gustaf Lindh on svenskagravar.se. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .
↑ Report Général sur les V ^es Jeux Olympiques d'hiver St-Moritz 1948 ( French / German , PDF; 3.9 MB) Comité Olympic Suisse . Pp. 72-74. 1951. Retrieved June 25, 2010.
↑ ^a ^b Arne Johansson: Guldolympier från Boda ( Swedish ) Lidens tidning - www.lidenstidning.se. April 9, 2000. Retrieved June 25, 2010.

personal data
SURNAME	Lindh, Gustaf
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Lindh, Gustaf Allan (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swedish modern pentathlon
DATE OF BIRTH	May 21, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH	Liden , Sundsvall (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH	3rd September 2015

[1] The life data of Gustaf Lindh on svenskagravar.se. Retrieved July 15, 2020 .

[2] Report Général sur les V ^es Jeux Olympiques d'hiver St-Moritz 1948 ( French / German , PDF; 3.9 MB) Comité Olympic Suisse . Pp. 72-74. 1951. Retrieved June 25, 2010.

[lidenstidning-3] Arne Johansson: Guldolympier från Boda ( Swedish ) Lidens tidning - www.lidenstidning.se. April 9, 2000. Retrieved June 25, 2010.