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Hans Berglund

1918 - 2006

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Hans Gustaf Bo Berglund (24 February 1918 – 17 September 2006) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. He won the gold in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. Berglund also won two medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1938). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Hans Berglund has received more than 14,770 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Hans Berglund is the 412th most popular athlete (up from 661st in 2019), the 638th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 763rd in 2019) and the 17th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hans Berglund ranks 412 out of 6,025. Before him are Tyson Gay, Marianne Werner, Émile Champion, Joseph Benz, Wilhelmina von Bremen, and Albert Hill. After him are Jean Shiley, Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Louis Abell, Lis Hartel, Edward Cook, and Harry Stenqvist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Hans Berglund ranks 191. Before him are Alexander Galich, Mrinalini Sarabhai, Bill Vukovich, Carlos Manuel Arana Osorio, Art Carney, and Gérard de Vaucouleurs. After him are Gisela Arendt, Abdallah Ibrahim, Frane Matošić, Vladimir Dudintsev, Mutsuhiro Watanabe, and John Bromwich. Among people deceased in 2006, Hans Berglund ranks 212. Before him are Jean-Louis de Rambures, Jimmy Johnstone, Pjetër Arbnori, Ray Barretto, Miroslav Brozović, and Bertil Antonsson. After him are Karl Hugo Strunz, Tihomir Ognjanov, Lou Rawls, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Oskar Pastior, and S. Yizhar.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Hans Berglund ranks 638 out of 1,879. Before him are Hillevi Rombin (1933), Torbjörn Nilsson (1954), Rebecca Ferguson (1983), Wilhelm Hisinger (1766), Tommy Svensson (1945), and Bertil Antonsson (1921). After him are Ewa Aulin (1950), Patrik Andersson (1971), Elizabeth Hesselblad (1870), Sven Jacobsson (1914), Ture Rangström (1884), and Günther (1967).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Hans Berglund ranks 17. Before him are Gert Fredriksson (1919), Henry Eriksson (1920), Arne Åhman (1925), Tore Sjöstrand (1921), Erik Abrahamsson (1898), and Hjalmar Andersson (1889). After him are Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Georg Åberg (1893), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Carl Bertilsson (1889), John Mikaelsson (1913), and Gunder Hägg (1918).

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