Knud Gleie
Knud Gleie (born March 15, 1935 in Søborggård , † January 21, 2010 in Frederiksberg ) was a Danish swimmer who specialized in the chest stretches.
Gleie was a member of the Copenhagen swimming club IF Sparta. In 1952, at the age of 17, he took part in the Summer Olympics for the first time, but did not finish sixth in the prerun over 200 meters. Four years later at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he fought head-to-head over the same route in advance with the eventual Olympic champion Masaru Furukawa and stayed 6.1 seconds below the Olympic record. In the final he did not confirm this time and came in sixth.
In February 1953 he had achieved the first world record in classic swimming technique following the separation of breast and dolphin technique decreed by the world swimming federation FINA .
Web links
- Knud Gleie in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Gleie, Knud |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Danish swimmer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 15, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Søborggård |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 2010 |
| Place of death | Frederiksberg |