John Westbergh

John Westbergh
nation	Sweden
birthday	August 6, 1915
place of birth	Myckelgensjö ,  Sweden
date of death	November 12, 2002
Place of death	Bredbyn ,  Sweden
Career
discipline	Ski jumping Cross-country skiing Nordic combined Military patrol
society	Anundsjö IF
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 0 × 1 × World Cup medals 0 × 2 × 0 × National medals 4 × 0 × 0 ×
winter Olympics bronze 1936 Garmisch-Partenkirchen Military patrol run  Nordic World Ski Championships silver 1938 Lahti Nordic combination silver 1939 Zakopane Cross-country skiing 4x10 km  Swedish championships gold 1938 singles gold 1940 singles gold 1941 singles gold 1942 singles

John Westbergh (born August 6, 1915 in Myckelgensjö , Örnsköldsvik , † November 12, 2002 in Bredbyn , Örnsköldsvik ) was a Swedish Nordic skier .

Career

Westbergh started at the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1938 in combination, ski jumping and cross-country skiing. In the cross-country individual over 18 km he reached 28th place with a time of 1.14.13. In ski jumping he reached 49.5 meters in the first run and fell in the second run. In the end he reached 84th place. In the Nordic combined he won the silver medal behind the Norwegian Olaf Hoffsbakken . In the same year Westbergh won the 18 km cross-country skiing race at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival. Westbergh, who started for the Anundsjö IF club , also won the Swedish Championships in Nordic Combined in 1938. A year later Westbergh was again part of the squad for the Nordic World Ski Championships in 1939 in Zakopane . He won silver again with the 4x10 km cross-country skiing relay. Between 1940 and 1942 Westbergh won the Swedish championship three times.

At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen , he won the bronze medal in the military patrol run , which was held as a demonstration competition, together with Gunnar Wåhlberg , Seth Olofsson and Johan Wiksten .

Web links

• John West Bergh in the database of the International Ski Federation (English)
• John West Bergh in the database of Olympedia.org (English)
• Full biography (Swedish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Lahti 1938 . www.lahdenmuseot.fi. Retrieved July 23, 2010.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Svenska Skidförbundet : Backe / Nordisk combination. In: skidor.com. Retrieved March 19, 2016 (Swedish).