Hate Börjes

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Hate Börjes Speed ​​skating
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday January 25, 1948
place of birth Rättvik
size 184 cm
Weight 92 kg
Career
Pers. Best times 500 m - 38.0 sec.
1000 m - 1: 19.87 min.
1500 m - 2: 12.4 min.
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
silver Sapporo 1972 500 m
 

Hasse Börjes (born January 25, 1948 ) is a former Swedish speed skater . On the sprint distance of 500 meters, Börjes was one of the fastest runners in the early 1970s, ran three world record times and won the Olympic silver medal in Sapporo in 1972 . After his amateur career, he successfully started as a professional in the International Speed ​​Skating League for two winters .

career

As a teenager, Börjes began his sporting career as a hammer thrower and was considered a talent in this discipline. Originally as a training for athletics, he took up speed skating in 1966 and was instantly one of the fastest ice sprinters in his country over the 500-meter distance. At the age of 20 he went to Grenoble as part of the Swedish Olympic team , but was only fifteenth there. In March 1968 he ran the 500 meters on the artificial ice rink in Inzell for the first time under 40 seconds and was only seven tenths of a second away from the world record of the German Erhard Keller . In January 1970, Börjes was the first athlete to undercut the 39-second mark in Davos and set a world record in 38.9 seconds , which he himself improved twice in the same winter - to 38.46 seconds in Inzell. The Swede also presented himself as the best man in the 500-meter distance at the Sprint World Championship , which was held for the first time , in which the runners contested two 500-meter and two 1000-meter races. Since he was clearly behind the world leaders in the 1000-meter run, he clearly missed the medal ranks when Valeri Muratow won.

Börjes lost his world record to Erhard Keller in March 1971, but was also considered one of the medal contenders before the 1972 Winter Olympics . He lived up to this when he won the silver medal in Sapporo - a quarter of a second behind Keller. Shortly afterwards, he ran the 500 meters in Inzell in 38.0 seconds, set a world record for the fourth time and then ended his career as an amateur. He switched to the newly founded International Speed ​​Skating League (ISSL), where, like many other successful speed skaters, he earned money with his sport. Börjes won the world and European championships held within this league in 1973 and 1974. Since the ISU , under threats of punishment, forbade railway operators to open their tracks for professional competitions and the number of spectators was low, the ISSL failed after two years. After that, Börjes had no further international appearances as a speed skater.

Characteristic of Börjes, who is of stock compared to the significantly lighter Japanese Keiichi Suzuki , was a very powerful running style, which made him one of the fastest athletes, especially on the back straight, in the middle of the sprint.

After the end of his career, Börjes trained as a Naprapath , d. H. as an alternative doctor. In 1978 he opened a clinic in his hometown Rättvik , where the father of four lives with his wife.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Hasse Börjes in the Munzinger archive ( beginning of article freely available)
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Wünsche: "It never gets faster" - A duel between the ice sprinters . In: Die Zeit (March 20, 1970).
  3. ↑ Olof Schääf: Hasse dansade med skridskons elefanter on dt.se. Released January 27, 2014. Accessed March 24, 2020.
personal data
SURNAME Börjes, Hasse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish speed skater
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1948