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Gösta Pettersson

1940 - Today

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Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit.Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum brothers. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gösta Pettersson has received more than 38,192 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Gösta Pettersson is the 55th most popular cyclist (down from 43rd in 2019), the 436th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 351st in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Gösta Pettersson ranks 55 out of 1,214. Before him are Francesco Moser, Walter Godefroot, Léon Scieur, Gastone Nencini, Fiorenzo Magni, and André Leducq. After him are Tony Rominger, Jacques Dupont, Roger Pingeon, Bjarne Riis, Greg LeMond, and José Manuel Fuente.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gösta Pettersson ranks 230. Before him are Charles T. Kowal, Jan Eliasson, Ali Saibou, Manuel Esquivel, Peter Atkins, and Silva Batuta. After him are Nanni Galli, Roger Pingeon, Yozhef Sabo, Aleksandr Ivanchenkov, Peter Gethin, and Peter C. Doherty.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Pettersson ranks 436 out of 1,612. Before him are Erik Ivar Fredholm (1866), Gideon Ståhlberg (1908), Emma Wiklund (1968), Ivan Eklind (1905), Johan Tobias Sergel (1740), and Bertil Nordahl (1917). After him are Carl Charlier (1862), Lars Gustafsson (1936), Stefan Persson (1947), Sven Wollter (1934), Wilhelm Peterson-Berger (1867), and Leif G. W. Persson (1945).

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Among CYCLISTS In Sweden

Among cyclists born in Sweden, Gösta Pettersson ranks 1. After him are Erik Pettersson (1944), Tomas Pettersson (1947), Bernhard Britz (1906), Bernt Johansson (1953), Gustav Larsson (1980), Magnus Bäckstedt (1975), Jan Karlsson (1966), Emma Johansson (1983), Fredrik Kessiakoff (1980), Marcus Ljungqvist (1974), and Susanne Ljungskog (1976).

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