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Arne Borg

1901 - 1987

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Claes Arne Borg (18 August 1901 – 7 November 1987) was a Swedish swimmer. He is best known for breaking 32 world records and winning five Olympic medals in the 1920s. In 1926 Borg won the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal, shared with Edvin Wide. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Arne Borg has received more than 34,966 page views. Her biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Arne Borg is the 10th most popular swimmer (down from 7th in 2019), the 505th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 447th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Swimmer.

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Among SWIMMERS

Among swimmers, Arne Borg ranks 10 out of 392Before her are Alfréd Hajós, Gertrude Ederle, Duke Kahanamoku, Rie Mastenbroek, Roland Matthes, and Don Schollander. After her are Kornelia Ender, Greta Andersen, Ann Curtis, István Bárány, John Arthur Jarvis, and Ethelda Bleibtrey.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1901, Arne Borg ranks 176Before her are Andrée Brunet, Willy Fritsch, Lisette Model, Alberto Hurtado, Henri Sauguet, and Ernest Nagel. After her are Xu Xiangqian, Fernando Tambroni, Erich Ollenhauer, Mária Mednyánszky, Jean Mermoz, and Enrique Santos Discépolo. Among people deceased in 1987, Arne Borg ranks 140Before her are Gustav Knuth, Bronisława Wajs, Viktor Nekrasov, M. G. Ramachandran, Richard Marquand, and Gioacchino Colombo. After her are Madeleine Carroll, Kristjan Palusalu, Woody Herman, Conny Plank, Georg Muche, and Arturo Torres Carrasco.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Arne Borg ranks 505 out of 1,612Before her are Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Carl Jakob Sundevall (1801), Nils Gabriel Sefström (1787), Orvar Bergmark (1930), Bengt Ekerot (1920), and Lars-Erik Larsson (1908). After her are Knut Ångström (1857), Katarina Taikon (1932), Rudolf Svensson (1899), Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland (1984), August Malmström (1829), and Sonja Edström (1930).

Among SWIMMERS In Sweden

Among swimmers born in Sweden, Arne Borg ranks 1After her are Greta Johansson (1895), Åke Borg (1901), Martha Norelius (1909), Pontus Hanson (1884), Gunnar Larsson (1951), Sarah Sjöström (1993), Therese Alshammar (1977), Lars Frölander (1974), Bengt Baron (1962), Anders Holmertz (1968), and Jennie Johansson (1988).