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Anders Gärderud

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Sven Anders Gärderud (born 28 August 1946) is a Swedish former track and field athlete, winner of the 3000 m steeplechase event at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.Gärderud was born to an orienteering competitor, and was an accomplished orienteer himself, winning a team gold medal at the 1977 Swedish Championships. He initially trained in orienteering and changed sports by chance – he was banned from running in the woods in autumn 1961 due to a jaundice epidemic and wandered into an athletic hall.Gärderud experimented with several events before focusing on the 3000 m steeplechase. His first major competition were the 1968 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the heats of 800 m and 1500 m. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anders Gärderud has received more than 33,064 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Anders Gärderud is the 457th most popular athlete (up from 613th in 2019), the 664th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 723rd in 2019) and the 24th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Anders Gärderud ranks 457 out of 3,059Before him are John Mikaelsson, Lewis Sheldon, Miltiadis Gouskos, Arthur Jonath, Dexter Jackson, and Evelyn Ashford. After him are Leonid Taranenko, Jorma Kinnunen, Harold Osborn, Elfriede Kaun, Inga Gentzel, and Tamara Tyshkevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1946, Anders Gärderud ranks 434Before him are Ralph Gonsalves, Ramazan Abdulatipov, Ryszard Szurkowski, Józef Oleksy, Nicholas Clay, and Alan Dean Foster. After him are Michael, Prince of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach, Beth Carvalho, Suze Randall, Antonis Antoniadis, Roy Thomas Baker, and Hayley Mills.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Anders Gärderud ranks 664 out of 1,612Before him are Maria Bonnevie (1973), Birgitta Trotzig (1929), Johan Andreas Murray (1740), John Mikaelsson (1913), Anders Järryd (1961), and Gunnar Fischer (1910). After him are Lea Ahlborn (1826), Alexandra Rapaport (1971), Brita Borg (1926), Ture Nerman (1886), Inga Gentzel (1908), and Carl Holmberg (1884).

Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Anders Gärderud ranks 24Before him are Karl-Erik Nilsson (1922), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Nils Hellsten (1885), Sven-Olov Sjödelius (1933), Gunnar Sköld (1894), and John Mikaelsson (1913). After him are Inga Gentzel (1908), Klas Lestander (1931), Tore Sjöstrand (1921), Arne Åhman (1925), Irma Johansson (1932), and Erik Adlerz (1892).