Lennart Larsson (cross-country skier)

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Lennart Larsson Cross-country skiing
Full name Lennart Nils Olov Larsson
nation SwedenSweden Sweden
birthday 7th February 1930 (age 90)
place of birth Granbergstrasse , Sweden
Career
status resigned
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × gold 0 × silver 1 × bronze
World Cup medals 1 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings winter Olympics
bronze 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo Season
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships
gold 1958 Lahti Season
 

Lennart Nils Olov Larsson (born February 7, 1930 in Granbergsträsk ) is a former Swedish cross-country skier .

Career

Larsson won the 15 km run at the Svenska Skidspelen in 1955 and won the bronze medal with the relay at the 1956 Winter Olympics in Cortina d'Ampezzo . In the races over 15 km and 30 km he came in eighth. The following year he won third place over 15 km at the Svenska Skidspelen. At the Nordic World Ski Championships in Lahti in 1958 , he was world champion with the relay. He also came in 15th place over 50 km and 14th place over 15 km. At his last Winter Olympics in 1960 in Squaw Valley , he was fifth over 30 km and fourth over 50 km and with the relay. In the same year he ran at the Svenska Skidspelen in third place with the relay. In 1962 he won the Svenska Skidspelen with the relay and also achieved third place over 30 km. At the Swedish championships he was second five times and third four times.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Results Svenska Skidspelen
  2. ↑ a b c Lennart Larsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
  3. ↑ Results World Cup 1958
personal data
SURNAME Larsson, Lennart
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Larsson, Lennart Nils Olov (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish cross-country skier
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Granbergstrasse