Ragnhild Hveger

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Ragnhild Hveger

Ragnhild Tove Hveger (born December 10, 1920 in Nyborg , † December 1, 2011 ) was a Danish swimmer .

Life

Hveger, born in 1920, made her first appearance at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin when she won the silver medal in the 400 m freestyle . At the European Championships in 1938 , she was able to win the title in both 100 m and 400 m freestyle. In the next few years she was to dominate the swimming able freestyle, but she could not win any more Olympic medals due to World War II . At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , she made a comeback and finished fourth and fifth respectively with the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay and over 400 m freestyle.

Career

In the history of swimming, Ragnhild Hveger was the swimmer who at one point held the most world records. From 1936 to 1943, the sportswoman, internationally known as the “golden torpedo ”, broke the world record 44 times , including 19 freestyle records in 1941 alone. Some of the records were not broken for more than 15 years. In addition, in her career, which she ended in 1954, she set 52 Danish swimming records and one back world record. She was inducted into the International Swimming Sports Hall of Fame in 1966 and has been a member of the Danish Sports Hall of Fame since 1992 . In 1996 she was named Female Sportswoman of the Century (Århundredets kvindelige Idrætsnavn) by the Danish Sports Association .

Hveger died on December 1, 2011 at the age of 90.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e Kristeligt Dagblad : Århundredets danske sportskvinde er død ( Memento of the original from February 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. dated December 10, 2011, accessed on December 10, 2011 (Danish) @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kristeligt-dagblad.dk
  2. ↑ a b Ragnhild Hveger in the International Swimming Hall of Fame (English), accessed on May 11, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Hveger, Ragnhild
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hveger, Ragnhild Tove (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Danish swimmer
DATE OF BIRTH December 10, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Nyborg
DATE OF DEATH December 1, 2011