Hjalmar Johansson

Hjalmar Johansson
Personal information
Surname:	Carl August Hjalmar Johansson
Nationality:	Sweden
Discipline (s) :	Diving
Birthday:	January 20, 1874
Place of birth:	Karlskrona
Date of death:	September 30, 1957
Place of death:	Segeltorp
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	76 kg

Carl August Hjalmar Johansson (born January 20, 1874 in Karlskrona , † September 30, 1957 in Segeltorp ) was a Swedish diver and swimmer . He became Olympic champion in diving in 1908.

Johansson took part in the 1906 Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens . In diving he came in sixth, over 100 m freestyle he swam in eighth. His greatest sporting success was two years later at the Olympic Games in London . In diving he was Olympic champion in front of two compatriots, it was the first Swedish Olympic gold medal in diving and the beginning of a Swedish dominance in diving that had lasted for several years. Johansson also started in the 200 m breaststroke, but did not finish the competition. Johansson also took part successfully in the Olympic home games in Stockholm in 1912 , this time he started exclusively in diving. In the 10 m high diving he took fourth place, in the so-called simple high diving, in which less acrobatic jumps from 5 m and 10 m height had to be shown, he won the silver medal.

Between 1897 and 1912, Johansson won 14 national titles. He is considered the inventor of many new jumping styles and was the first to show the so-called Swedish swallow . In 1908 Johansson was in London, where he was studying at the time, involved in founding the Fédération Internationale de Natation (FINA). Because of his services to diving, he was inducted into the diving hall of fame in 1982 .

Web links

• Hjalmar Johansson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Plain High Diving. Retrieved April 2, 2012 . 
2. ↑ Hjalmar Johansson in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English)