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Axel Ljung

1884 - 1938

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Harald Axel Fredrik Ljung (31 March 1884 – 5 February 1938) was a Swedish gymnast and track and field athlete who won an all-around gold medal with the Swedish gymnastics team at the 1908 Summer Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Axel Ljung has received more than 8,436 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia. Axel Ljung is the 14th most popular gymnast (up from 24th in 2019), the 348th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 483rd in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Axel Ljung ranks 14 out of 370. Before him are Hermann Weingärtner, Alfred Flatow, Sawao Kato, Boris Shakhlin, Nikolai Andrianov, and Leon Štukelj. After him are Louis Zutter, Paavo Aaltonen, Nellie Kim, Takashi Ono, Mitsuo Tsukahara, and Alfred Schwarzmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Axel Ljung ranks 85. Before him are Corrado Gini, Rómulo Gallegos, Josias Braun-Blanquet, George Sarton, Philipp Frank, and Tanzan Ishibashi. After him are Gerald Gardner, Phraya Manopakorn Nititada, Jules Supervielle, James Alberione, Claude Auchinleck, and Wilhelm Brückner. Among people deceased in 1938, Axel Ljung ranks 98. Before him are Jānis K. Bērziņš, King Oliver, Frigyes Karinthy, John Flanagan, Émile Cohl, and Otto Warburg. After him are Joseph Strauss, Kazimierz Twardowski, Boris Pilnyak, Hovhannes Kajaznuni, Andrei Bubnov, and E. C. Segar.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Axel Ljung ranks 348 out of 1,879. Before him are Kristina Söderbaum (1912), Olof Thunberg (1925), Lennart Carleson (1928), Princess Elizabeth of Sweden (1549), Lars Magnus Ericsson (1846), and Evert Taube (1890). After him are Alf Sjöberg (1903), Staffan de Mistura (1947), Jan Troell (1931), Lars Hörmander (1931), Tomas Brolin (1969), and Maria Gripe (1923).

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Among GYMNASTS In Sweden

Among gymnasts born in Sweden, Axel Ljung ranks 1. After him are Karin Lindberg (1929), Haakon Sörvik (1886), Carl Holmberg (1884), Sven Forssman (1882), Nils Widforss (1880), Arvid Holmberg (1886), Carl Folcker (1889), Daniel Norling (1888), Gösta Åsbrink (1881), Hugo Jahnke (1886), and Gösta Olson (1883).

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