Lars Sigurd Björkström

Lars Sigurd Björkström medal table
sailing
Brazil
Olympic games
gold	Moscow 1980	tornado

Lars Sigurd Björkström (born November 19, 1943 in Gothenburg , Sweden ) is a former Brazilian sailor .

successes

Lars Sigurd Björkström, who was born in Sweden and grew up there before emigrating to Brazil, took part for Brazil in the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow in the boat class Tornado . Together with Alexandre Welter he took first place in front of Peter Due and Per Kjærgaard Nielsen as well as Göran Marström and Jörgen Ragnarsson . They became Olympic champions with a total of 21.4 points .

Web links

• Lars Sigurd Björkström in the database of World Sailing (English)
• Lars Sigurd Björkström in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )