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Ingemar Hedberg

1920 - 2019

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Ingemar Harald Robert Hedberg (8 March 1920 – 19 May 2019) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Hedberg also won three gold medals at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen, earning them in the K-1 4×500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-2 1000 m events. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Ingemar Hedberg has received more than 12,281 page views. His biography is available in 15 different languages on Wikipedia. Ingemar Hedberg is the 1,083rd most popular athlete, the 923rd most popular biography from Sweden and the 80th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 1,083 out of 3,059Before him are Otto Licha, Harry Blackstaffe, Thomas Munkelt, Mildred Wiley, Edward Archibald, and Harry Watson. After him are René Bondoux, Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili, Georges Gandil, Steve Anderson, Hilda Strike, and Ivan Udodov.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 347Before him are Sammy Lee, Laraine Day, Jose Tomas Sanchez, Michael Bates, Man Mohan Adhikari, and Jean Dutourd. After him are Dorothy Tyler-Odam, Marguerite Higgins, Aldo Ghira, Edera Cordiale, Keith Andrews, and Kenneth McAlpine. Among people deceased in 2019, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 410Before him are Carmine Caridi, Ilona Novák, Giovanni Bramucci, Eduard Krieger, Heinz Fütterer, and Alasdair Gray. After him are Mary Oliver, Joseph Pilato, Gerhard Auer, W. S. Merwin, W. Morgan Sheppard, and Juan Rodríguez.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 923 out of 1,612Before him are Majgull Axelsson (1947), Roger Pontare (1951), Evy Berggren (1934), Nils Ramm (1903), Peter Jacob Hjelm (1746), and Kjell Espmark (1930). After him are Joacim Cans (1970), Per Wästberg (1933), Magnus Samuelsson (1969), Sven Forssman (1882), Sven-Åke Lundbäck (1948), and Gösta Olson (1883).

Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 80Before him are Per-Erik Hedlund (1897), Bo Ekelund (1894), Gösta Runö (1896), Erik Elmsäter (1919), Erik Svensson (1903), and Göte Hagström (1918). After him are Sven-Åke Lundbäck (1948), Lennart Strand (1921), Carl Abrahamsson (1896), Gunnar Höjer (1875), Hugo Wieslander (1889), and Gösta Lilliehöök (1884).