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Nils Östensson

1918 - 1949

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Nils Holger Östensson (29 April 1918, Transtrand, Dalarna – 24 July 1949 at the same place) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1940s. He won the 4 × 10 km relay gold and the 18 km silver at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nils Östensson has received more than 12,058 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Östensson is the 105th most popular skier (down from 66th in 2019), the 912th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 679th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Skier.

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Among SKIERS

Among skiers, Nils Östensson ranks 105 out of 817Before him are Tapio Mäkelä, Anja Pärson, Heini Hemmi, Pavel Kolchin, Phil Mahre, and Erika Mahringer. After him are Chiharu Igaya, Sture Sivertsen, Zeno Colò, Torgeir Brandtzæg, Stefania Belmondo, and Ernst Hinterseer.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1918, Nils Östensson ranks 251Before him are Richard Hoggart, Francisco Javier Sáenz de Oiza, Jopie Selbach, Sebastian Cabot, Johnnie Parsons, and René de Obaldia. After him are Yevgeniya Sechenova, Renée Faure, Reinaldo Gorno, Mariano Mores, Peter Poreku Dery, and Tranquilo Cappozzo. Among people deceased in 1949, Nils Östensson ranks 158Before him are Sevasti Qiriazi, Gregory Mathews, George Larner, Clarence Kingsbury, Henry Petersen, and Linda Arvidson. After him are Birbal Sahni, Leon Schlesinger, J. Searle Dawley, William Henry Dean, Karolina Widerström, and Robert Ripley.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Östensson ranks 912 out of 1,879Before him are Per Wästberg (1933), Ragnar Malm (1893), Stefan Olsdal (1974), Marcus Schenkenberg (1968), Roland Andersson (1950), and Irma Johansson (1932). After him are Harry Bild (1936), Ulf Sterner (1941), Rolf Johnsson (1889), Andreas Granqvist (1985), Kim Källström (1982), and William Grut (1914).

Among SKIERS In Sweden

Among skiers born in Sweden, Nils Östensson ranks 11Before him are Nils Karlsson (1917), Thomas Wassberg (1956), Gunde Svan (1962), Elis Wiklund (1909), Jan Boklöv (1966), and Anja Pärson (1981). After him are Assar Rönnlund (1935), Sven Utterström (1901), Stig Sollander (1926), Barbro Martinsson (1935), Pernilla Wiberg (1970), and Jan Halvarsson (1942).