Sverre Strandli

Sverre Strandli in the international match between Norway and GDR in 1955

Sverre Gunnar Strandli (born September 30, 1925 in Brandval , † March 4, 1985 ) was a Norwegian athlete . With a height of 1.86 m, his competition weight was 93 kg.

Sverre Strandli won the hammer throw competition at the European Championships in Brussels in 1950 with a width of 55.71 meters ahead of the Italian Teseo Taddia with 54.73 meters. After this success, Strandli was voted Sportsman of the Year in Norway in 1950 .

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , he reached 7th place with 56.36 meters, with only European throwers in front of him. The winner was the Hungarian József Csermák , who achieved the first sixty-meter throw with 60.34 meters. On September 14, 1952, Sverre Strandli surpassed Csermák's world record with 61.25 meters in the international match between Norway and Finland in Oslo.

On September 5, 1953, Sverre Strandli improved the world record a second time at a sports festival in Oslo, this time to 62.36 meters. In this competition, the two Hungarian Olympic champions Imre Németh and József Csermák came in second and third. For this world record, Strandli was again Norway's athlete of the year.

At the European Championships in Bern in 1954 , Strandli threw the hammer at 61.07 meters. But he only won silver because the Belarusian Mikhail Krivonosow, who was competing for the Soviet Union, set a new world record with 63.34 meters.

In Melbourne at the 1956 Olympic Games , Strandli finished 8th with 59.21 meters. Four years later at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome, Strandli threw 63.05 meters further than his world record, but only reached 11th place with this distance. At the European Championships in Belgrade in 1962 , Strandli missed the final with 61.78 meters as thirteenth in the qualification. At the end of the season, Strandli threw his personal best on October 8, 1962 in Trondheim with 63.88 meters, but was now almost seven meters behind the world record of the American Hal Connolly .

Strandli was Norwegian champion in the hammer throw in the years 1949-1954, 1956-1957 and 1960-1962, in addition, it was 1954 Norwegian champion in the shot put . Strandli set a total of 21 Norwegian national records with a hammer throw.

literature

• Manfred Holzhausen: world records and world record holder. Hammer throw / javelin throw. Grevenbroich 1998
• Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996. Track and Field Athletics. Berlin 1999 (published by the German Society for Athletics Documentation eV )