Rune Larsson

Rune Larsson medal table
Sprint , hurdles
Sweden
Olympic games
bronze	1948 London	400 m hurdles
bronze	1948 London	4 × 400 m
European championships
bronze	1946 Oslo	400 m hurdles
bronze	1950 Brussels	4 × 400 m

Rune Larsson ( Carl Rune Larsson ; born June 17, 1924 in Stockholm , † September 17, 2016 ) was a Swedish hurdler .

Larsson was Swedish champion in the 400-meter hurdles six times in a row from 1946 to 1951 and also won two titles in the 400-meter run in 1947 and 1948 . Internationally, he made his first appearance at the European Athletics Championships in Oslo in 1946 , when he won the bronze medal in the 400-meter hurdles behind Finn Bertel Storskrubb (52.2 seconds) and his compatriot Sixten Larsson (52.4 seconds) in 52.5 seconds Seconds).

Larsson was also successful at the 1948 Olympic Games in London. In the 400 hurdles he finished third in 52.2 seconds behind the American Roy Cochran (51.1 seconds) and the Sri Lankan Duncan White (51.8 seconds). He won another bronze medal as the final runner of the Swedish 4 x 400 meter relay together with Kurt Lundquist , Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt and Folke Alnevik behind the relay from the United States and France. The same placement with the relay Larsson achieved two years later at the European Athletics Championships in Brussels in 1950 .

Rune Larsson was 1.78 m tall and had a competition weight of 70 kg. He started for the UoIF Matteus-Pojkarna . In 1951 he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal .

Web links

• Rune Larsson in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Collection of obituaries ( Memento of the original from October 5, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. from Mitt i Järfälla, Svenska Dagbladet and Dagens Nyheter , accessed on March 12, 2017