Jonny Nilsson

Jonny Nilsson
Full name	Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson
nation	Sweden
birthday	February 9, 1943
place of birth	Gothenburg
size	1.80 cm
Career
status	resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 1 × 0 × 0 × World Cup medals 1 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics gold Innsbruck 1964 10,000 m  All around world championships gold Karuizawa 1963 All-around bronze Gothenburg 1966 All-around

Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson (born February 9, 1943 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish speed skater .

Nilsson won the all- around world champion in Karuizawa in 1963 . In 1966 he won bronze at the world championships.

At the Olympic Games in Innsbruck in 1964 , Nilsson won gold over 10,000 meters.

He set five world records and ended his career at the age of 25 after the 1968 World Cup. Nilsson led the nobility calendar for 329 days between 1963 and 1964. Its high was 176.873 points. He was awarded the Oscar Mathisen trophy in 1962 and the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal in 1963 .

Personal bests

route	time	date	place
500 m	42.2 sec	February 9, 1966	Davos
1000 m	1: 33.1 min	19th January 1969	Gothenburg
1500 m	2: 08.2 min	2nd February 1966	Davos
3000 m	4: 27.6 min	March 23, 1963	Tolga
5000 m	7: 32.9 min	15th February 1968	Grenoble
10,000 m	15: 33.0 min	February 24, 1963	Karuizawa

Web links

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• Jonny Nilsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Statistics at speed skating news

Nilsson at the 1964 Winter Olympics