Peder Lunde junior

Peder Lunde junior
Bjørn Bergvall (left) and Peder Lunde Jr. (right), 1960
Nationality:	Norway
Birthday:	February 9, 1942
Place of birth:	Oslo , Norway
Size:	176 cm
Weight:	80 kg
Society:	Kongelig Norsk Seilforening (KNS)
Boat classes:	Flying Dutchman , star boat
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 ×
Olympic games gold Rome 1960 Flying Dutchman silver Acapulco 1968 Star boat

Peder Lunde (born February 9, 1942 in Oslo ) is a Norwegian sailor who became Olympic champion in 1960.

Career

The sailing regattas of the 1960 Olympic Games took place in the Gulf of Naples . The Flying Dutchman (FD) boat class was part of the Olympic program for the first time . Together with Bjørn Bergvall , Peder Lunde became the first Olympic champion in this boat class on the FD Sirene . This earned him the Fearnleys olympiske ærespris in his home country . Eight years later at the Olympic regattas off Acapulco (Mexico) he won the silver medal together with Per Olav Wiken in the star boat , which again bore the name Sirene .

Peder Lunde married the Norwegian skier Aud Hvammen .

Peder Lunde's parents Peder Lunde Senior and Vibeke Lunde had jointly won Olympic silver in the 5.5 mR class off Helsinki (Finland) in 1952 . His grandfather Eugen Lunde had become Olympic champion in the boat class 6mR in 1924 in front of Le Havre (France) . Peder Lunde junior was the first athlete in the history of the modern Olympic Games to win a medal in the third generation. In 1972 Pál Gerevich from the fencing dynasty Bogen-Gerevich also succeeded in this series , in 1984 the hockey player Andreas Keller was the third athlete to succeed in this series.

literature

• Erich Kamper , Herbert Soucek: Olympic heroes. Portraits and anecdotes from 1896 to today. Spiridon-Verlag, Erkrath 1991, ISBN 3-922011-20-9 .
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

Commons : Peder Lunde, Jr.  - Collection of Images, Videos, and Audio Files

• Peder Lunde junior in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )