John Eke
John Eke 
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| Full name | John Wicktor Eke | |||||||||
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 Sweden
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| birthday | March 12, 1886 | |||||||||
| place of birth | Högby , Sweden | |||||||||
| size | 171 cm | |||||||||
| Weight | 64 kg | |||||||||
| date of death | September 29, 1964 | |||||||||
| Place of death | Philadelphia , USA | |||||||||
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| discipline | Long-distance running , cross-country running | |||||||||
| Best performance | 10,000 m: 33: 33.0 min | |||||||||
| society | Södermalms IK | |||||||||
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John Eke ( John Wicktor Eke ; born March 12, 1886 in Högby , † September 29, 1964 in Philadelphia , United States ) was a Swedish long-distance runner .
In 1912 he became the Swedish runner-up in cross-country skiing .
In the same year he qualified at the Olympic Games in Stockholm for the final of the 10,000-meter run , but did not appear there. In the cross-country race he won bronze in the individual standings behind the Finn Hannes Kolehmainen and his compatriot Hjalmar Andersson and gold in the team standings together with Andersson and fifth-placed Josef Ternström .
Web links
- Entry on the website of the Swedish Olympic Committee
- John Eke in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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| SURNAME | Eke, John |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eke, John Wicktor (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish long distance runner |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 12, 1886 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Högby |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 29, 1964 |
| Place of death | Philadelphia |