Torsten Ullman

Torsten Ullman

Torsten Elis Ullman (born July 27, 1908 in Stockholm , † May 11, 1993 in Växjö ) was a Swedish sports shooter .

Torsten Ullman was the main competitor of the German pistol shooters at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin . On August 6, the decision with the rapid fire pistol fell in favor of the German riflemen. The winner was Cornelius van Oyen before Heinz Hax , Ullman won the jump-off for the bronze medal against the Greeks Angelos Papadimas. The following day the decision was made in the competition with the free pistol , here Ullman won with 559 rings and a world record ahead of the German Erich Krempel .

Twelve years later, the 1948 Olympic Games took place in London , the first after World War II. With the free pistol, Ullman won bronze behind Edwin Vasquez Cam from Peru and Rudolf Schnyder from Switzerland . With the rapid fire pistol, Ullman took fourth place. Also in 1952 at the Olympic Games in Helsinki and 1956 in Melbourne Ullman reached the final again with the free pistol and finished sixth in each case. A year before the Games in Melbourne, Anton Jasinski from the Soviet Union broke Torsten Ullman's world record. As an Olympic record , Ullman's performance from 1936 was only surpassed in Rome at the 1960 Olympic Games by Alexei Gushchin from the Soviet Union. Ullman was in Rome for the fifth time in a row in the final with the free pistol and took fourth place.

Between 1933 and 1952 Ullman won a total of six world championship titles, in 1933, 1935, 1937, 1947 and 1952 he won with the free pistol, and in 1939 with the rapid-fire pistol. In 1939 and 1954 Ullman was runner-up with the free pistol. In 1958 he won the Swedish team championship in pistol shooting together with his son Erland and daughter Cecilia. His youngest daughter from his second marriage, Marie-Louise, became Junior European Champion with an air pistol in 1992.

In 1937 Ullman was the first sports marksman to be awarded the Svenska Dagbladet gold medal. Outside of sport, Ullman was a graduate engineer, graduating from Cambridge in 1930 . The metal processing company Torsten Ullman AB , which he founded in 1944, is now part of the Finnveden Group.

literature

• Erich Kamper , Bill Mallon : Who's Who of the Olympic Games 1896–1992. Who's Who at the Olympics. AGON Sportverlag, Kassel 1992, ISBN 3-928562-47-9 .
• Volker Kluge : Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle I. Athens 1896 - Berlin 1936. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-328-00715-6 .
• Volker Kluge: Summer Olympic Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 .

Web links

• Torsten Ullman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )