Nils Westermark

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Nils Westermark
Nils Westermark (1950s)

Nationality: SwedenSweden Sweden
Birthday: September 9, 1892
Place of birth: Stockholm
Date of death: January 24, 1980
Place of death: Stockholm
Society: Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet
Boat classes: 8 meter class
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Olympic rings Olympic games
silver Stockholm 1912 8 meter class

Nils Johan Hugo Westermark (born September 9, 1892 in Stockholm , † January 24, 1980 there ) was a Swedish sailor and radiologist .

successes

Nils Westermark, who was a member of the Kungliga Svenska Segelsällskapet , won the silver medal as a crew member in the 8-meter class at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 . At the regatta taking place in Nynäshamn , the Finnish boat Lucky Girl and the Swedish Sans Atout , whose skipper Bengt Heyman acted as skipper , came second in a total of two races, so that there was a tie-off between these two boats. In this the Sans Atout prevailed, whose crew also included Alvar Thiel , Emil Henriques and his brother Herbert Westermark .

Westermark was a radiologist and initially worked as an assistant doctor at the Radiumhemmet in Solna , before finally becoming head of radiology at Sankt Görans sjukhus in Stockholm. He then became a professor of radiology at the Karolinska Institute .

Web links

Commons : Nils Westermark  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Westermark, Nils . In: Karin Nordquist (ed.): Vem är det. Svensk biografisk handbok 1943 . 16th year PA Norstedt & Söners Förlag, 1942, ISSN  0347-3341 , p. 889 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).
personal data
SURNAME Westermark, Nils
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Westermark, Nils Johan Hugo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish sailor and radiologist
DATE OF BIRTH September 9, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Stockholm , Sweden
DATE OF DEATH January 24, 1980
Place of death Stockholm , Sweden