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Gösta Åsbrink

1881 - 1966

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Karl "Gösta" Åsbrink (18 November 1881 – 19 April 1966) was a Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete who won a gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics. Åsbrink's 1908 gold medal was won in London for a team event, as the Swedish men's gymnastics team came in first. Four years later, competing before a home audience in 1912 Stockholm, he won an individual silver medal in the first contested Modern pentathlon of the Olympic Games. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gösta Åsbrink has received more than 16,866 page views. Her biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gösta Åsbrink is the 75th most popular gymnast (up from 139th in 2019), the 876th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,075th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Swedish Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Gösta Åsbrink ranks 75 out of 370. Before her are Hans Beyer, Masao Takemoto, Paolo Salvi, Georges Miez, Arthur Amundsen, and Daniel Norling. After her are Larisa Petrik, Hugo Jahnke, Margarita Nikolaeva, Guido Romano, Gösta Olson, and Josip Primožič.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1881, Gösta Åsbrink ranks 191. Before her are Valerian Albanov, Ricardo Samper, William Clothier, Howard Valentine, Dimitrana Ivanova, and Alice Catherine Evans. After her are Désiré Beaurain, Martin Sheridan, Lajos Gönczy, Willem Hubert van Blijenburgh, Huseyn Arablinski, and René Guyot. Among people deceased in 1966, Gösta Åsbrink ranks 184. Before her are Áron Tamási, Jakub Szynkiewicz, Zoltán Ozoray Schenker, Giorgi Leonidze, Bill Carr, and Alice Pearce. After her are Charles Bassett, Hans Christian Branner, Juan Natalicio González, Gösta Olson, Albert W. Hull, and René Barbier.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Åsbrink ranks 876 out of 1,879. Before her are Martha Norelius (1909), Daniel Norling (1888), Anders Johansson (1962), Alf Kjellin (1920), Gunnar Jansson (1907), and Jan Boklöv (1966). After her are Carl-Erik Holmberg (1906), Hugo Jahnke (1886), Anders Larsson (1892), Lars Ahlin (1915), Majgull Axelsson (1947), and Sven-Olov Sjödelius (1933).

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Among GYMNASTS In Sweden

Among gymnasts born in Sweden, Gösta Åsbrink ranks 10. Before her are Carl Holmberg (1884), Sven Forssman (1882), Nils Widforss (1880), Arvid Holmberg (1886), Carl Folcker (1889), and Daniel Norling (1888). After her are Hugo Jahnke (1886), Gösta Olson (1883), Rolf Johnsson (1889), Vanja Blomberg (1929), Leonard Peterson (1885), and Axel Janse (1888).

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