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Gert Fredriksson

1919 - 2006

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Gert Fridolf Fredriksson (21 November 1919 – 5 July 2006) was a Swedish sprint canoeist. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won eight medals including six golds (1948: K-1 1000 m, K-1 10000 m; 1952: K-1 1000 m, 1956: K-1 1000 m, K-1 10000 m; 1960: K-2 1000 m), one silver (1952: K-1 10000 m), and one bronze (K-1 1000 m). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gert Fredriksson has received more than 45,361 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. Gert Fredriksson is the 260th most popular athlete (down from 246th in 2019), the 522nd most popular biography from Sweden (down from 516th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gert Fredriksson ranks 260 out of 6,025. Before him are K. D. Jadhav, Miruts Yifter, Evelyne Hall, Nadezhda Chizhova, Juhani Suutarinen, and Donald Lippincott. After him are Miklós Németh, Arie van Vliet, Ed Ablowich, Dimitrios Golemis, Milka Babović, and Harold Osborn.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Gert Fredriksson ranks 177. Before him are Angelo Felici, John Ljunggren, George Shearing, Hans Hass, Gayatri Devi, and Arthur Cronquist. After him are François Bordes, Gilles Andriamahazo, Ivan Sidorenko, Benny Moré, Mustai Karim, and Trần Văn Trà. Among people deceased in 2006, Gert Fredriksson ranks 190. Before him are Leon Niemczyk, Akira Ifukube, Kent Andersson, Dennis Weaver, Kathleen Antonelli, and Yitzhak Kaduri. After him are Kazimierz Górski, Theodore Levitt, Paul Halmos, Anita O'Day, Arif Mardin, and Pío Leyva.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gert Fredriksson ranks 522 out of 1,879. Before him are Gunnar Andersson (1928), Bo Johansson (1942), Anna Q. Nilsson (1888), Henri Saint Cyr (1902), Nils Christoffer Dunér (1839), and Alexander Bard (1961). After him are Roland Sandberg (1946), Carl Gustaf Tessin (1695), Mårten Eskil Winge (1825), Neneh Cherry (1964), Sigrid Hjertén (1885), and Gideon Ståhlberg (1908).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Gert Fredriksson ranks 11. Before him are Henrik Sjöberg (1875), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Karl Staaf (1881), August Nilsson (1872), Erik Lundqvist (1908), and John Ljunggren (1919). After him are Henry Eriksson (1920), Arne Åhman (1925), Tore Sjöstrand (1921), Erik Abrahamsson (1898), Hjalmar Andersson (1889), and Hans Berglund (1918).

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