Stubborn Pettersson

Sture Helge Vilhelm Pettersson , also Sture Fåglum Pettersson , (born September 30, 1942 in Vårgårda , † June 26, 1983 in Alingsås ) was a Swedish cyclist .

Sture Petterson was one of the four Fåglum brothers who dominated the disciplines of team pursuit on the track and team time trial on the road as a team in the 1960s . The brothers became world champions four times together, in 1967 , 1968 and 1968 in the time trial. At the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo , Sture Pettersson won the bronze medal in the team time trial together with his brothers Gösta and Erik and Sven Hamrin . Four years later, at the Olympic Games in Mexico City , Sture, Gösta, Erik and their fourth brother Tomas Pettersson won the silver medal in the same discipline.

In 1965 Sture Pettersson was also the Swedish time trial champion . The brothers have been joint Swedish champions seven times in the team time trial or the team classification of the individual time trial. The Fåglum brothers have also won the team time trial at the Scandinavian Championships five times. 1963 won the Östgötaloppet , one of the oldest road races in Sweden. At the UCI Road World Championships in 1966 at the Nürburgring , he finished 46th in the amateur road race .

In 1968 he and his three brothers became the first team of four in the world to achieve a time of less than two hours over the 100-kilometer route.

In 1970 Sture Pettersson became a professional driver in the Italian Ferretti team. He competed twice in the Giro d'Italia, in 1971 his 51st place was his best result.

The Fåglum brothers were named after a part of Vårgårda, where they grew up and started for the “Fåglums Cykelklubb”. Sture Pettersson later, like two of his brothers (except Gösta), also adopted the surname “Fåglum”, as the name Pettersson is very common in Sweden.

At the 2011 UCI Road World Championships , a grandson of Sture Pettersson, Marcus Fåglum Karlsson , came fourth in the junior individual time trial. His father Jan Karlsson , Pettersson's son-in-law, was also a cyclist, competed in the 1988 Olympic Games and won bronze in the team time trial.

Professional

Sture Petterson coached the Norwegian national team until his death.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 35/1966 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1966, p. 10 .
2. ^ German Cycling Association of the GDR (ed.): The cyclist . No. 2/1970 . Berlin 1970, p. 7 .
3. ^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Verlag Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1459 (Flemish).
4. ↑ Full fart för Fåglum on expressen.se v. September 19, 2011 (Swedish)
5. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 27/1983 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne, p. 11 .

Web links

• Sture Pettersson in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Sture Pettersson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )