Sixten Jernberg

Sixten Jernberg
Jernberg at the Olympics in 1964
Full name	Edy Sixten Jernberg
nation	Sweden
birthday	February 6, 1929
place of birth	Lima , Sweden
size	177 cm
Weight	72 kg
date of death	July 14, 2012
Place of death	Mora , Sweden
Career
discipline	Cross-country skiing
society	Lima IK
National squad	since 1954
End of career	1964
Medal table
Olympic medals 4 × 3 × 2 × World Cup medals 8 × 3 × 4 ×
winter Olympics gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 50 km silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 15 km silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 30 km bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Season gold Squaw Valley 1960 30 km silver Squaw Valley 1960 15 km gold Innsbruck 1964 50 km gold Innsbruck 1964 Season bronze Innsbruck 1964 15 km  Nordic World Ski Championships bronze Falun 1954 Season gold Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 50 km silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 15 km silver Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 30 km bronze Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956 Season gold Lahti 1958 50 km gold Lahti 1958 Season bronze Lahti 1958 30 km gold Squaw Valley 1960 30 km silver Squaw Valley 1960 15 km gold Zakopane 1962 50 km gold Zakopane 1962 Season gold Innsbruck 1964 50 km gold Innsbruck 1964 Season bronze Innsbruck 1964 15 km
last change: July 18, 2012

Edy Sixten Jernberg (born February 6, 1929 in Lima, Kopparbergs län , now part of Malung-Sälen ; † July 14, 2012 in Mora , Dalarnas län ) was a Swedish cross-country skier .

Life

Jernberg, who started for the Lima IF , was originally a trained blacksmith. After working as a village blacksmith, he switched to the profession of woodcutter, as this gave him more time for training. Emulating the cross-country skier Nils Karlsson , who also came from Dalarna , his first successes in cross-country skiing came during his time in the military in 1951. After the poor performance of the Swedish cross-country team at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 with only one bronze medal in the relay, the cross-country team was rejuvenated and Jernberg got the train. In 1954 he won the 15 km race at the Holmenkollen Ski Festival . Three years later, at a cross-country skiing competition in Podrevskov, near Moscow , he advanced into the world elite when he was able to defeat the entire Soviet cross-country elite, including Vladimir Kusin . In the Svenska Skidspelen he won the 30 km run three times (1956, 1957, 1960). He also came second in 1957 over 15 km and in 1963 over 30 km. Also in 1963, he took third place in the 50 km race at the Lahti Ski Games . In Swedish championships he won seven times over 15 km (1955-1961), three times over 30 km (1957, 1960, 1961) and five times over 50 km (1955-1957, 1960, 1961). With the season of Lima IF he was champion five times (1956, 1957, 1959, 1960, 1964).

In the course of his career, the specialist for long distances won four gold medals, three silver and two bronze medals at the Olympic Games between 1954 and 1964, for which he also received world championship medals. He also won four other world championships and took two third places there. In 1955 and 1960 he won the Wasalauf .

The red-haired Jernberg, who is 1.77 m tall and weighs 72 kg, always trained as an active 350 days a year, between one and four hours a day. In training, he covered around 2500 kilometers per winter. By the time he retired in November 1964, he had covered around 30,000 kilometers on skis. His record rate of 134 victories in 363 national and international competitions from 1952 to 1964 (only 37 times he did not make it into the top six) was only surpassed in 1992 by the Soviet-Russian cross-country skier Raissa Smetanina .

He was honored with the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1956 and the Holmenkollen Medal in 1960 for his achievements . Even as an active player, like his role model Nils Karlsson, he presented an autobiography with I vilda spår (1960; Ger. About “In wild tracks”). In 1965 the IOC awarded him the Mohammed Taher Trophy for his contribution to cross-country skiing.

Jernberg briefly appeared as a biathlete after retiring from cross-country skiing . As a coach, he supervised the Swedish team at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble . He was also instrumental in setting up sports schools in Sweden. Before the 1972 Olympic Games in Sapporo , Jernberg was invited by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces in the winter of 1969/70 to suggest suitable routes and facilities for the biathlon route.

Jernberg later built a recreational settlement and a fish farm in Lima. Politically, he was active in the Swedish Centerpartiet ("Center Party"), which came up with a green profile.

Sixten Jernberg lived in Lima, which was incorporated into Malung in 1971 , which earned him the nickname "Blitz von Lima" during his active time. He had been married since 1956 and had three sons. After a long period of cancer, he died in Mora hospital.

The pole vaulter Ingemar Jernberg , Olympian from 1992 and 1996, was his nephew.

successes

winter Olympics

• 1956 in Cortina d'Ampezzo : gold over 50 km, silver over 15 km, silver over 30 km, bronze in the relay
• 1960 in Squaw Valley : gold over 30 km, silver over 15 km
• 1964 in Innsbruck : gold over 50 km, gold in the relay, bronze over 15 km

World championships

• 1954 in Falun : Bronze in the relay
• 1958 in Lahti : gold over 50 km, gold in the relay, bronze over 30 km
• 1962 in Zakopane : gold over 50 km, gold in the relay

literature

• Jernberg, Sixten: I vilda spår . Stockholm: Bonnier, 1960.

Web links

Commons : Sixten Jernberg  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sixten Jernberg in the database of the International Ski Association (English)
• Sixten Jernberg in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Four-time Olympic champion Jernberg has died , Spiegel Online from July 14, 2012. Retrieved July 15, 2012.
2. ↑ ^{a b c d} Sixten Jernberg . Internationales Sportarchiv 28/1999 from July 5, 1999, supplemented by news from MA-Journal up to week 40/1999 (accessed via Munzinger-Archiv ).
3. ↑ Results Svenska Skidspelen
4. ↑ Results Lahti Ski Games 1963
5. ↑ List of the Swedish Masters
6. ↑ Karlsson, Erik: Skidlegendarerna hyllar "Mora-Nisse": Sixten Jernberg: "Han var bäst på sin tid"  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at mobil.aftonbladet.se, June 17, 2012 (accessed July 16, 2012).