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Rune Larsson

1924 - 2016

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Karl Rune Larsson (17 June 1924 – 17 September 2016) was a Swedish sprinter and hurdler who specialized in 400 m events. He competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics and won two bronze medals in 1948: in the 400 m hurdles and 4 × 400 m relay. He also won bronze medals in the same events at the European championships of 1946 and 1950. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Rune Larsson has received more than 13,046 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Rune Larsson is the 597th most popular athlete (down from 429th in 2019), the 739th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 631st in 2019) and the 37th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Rune Larsson ranks 597 out of 3,059Before him are Ernst Schultz, Eero Lehtonen, Paul Van Asbroeck, Leo Sexton, Grete Waitz, and Louis Wilkins. After him are Mihaela Peneș, Teresa Ciepły, Carl Johnson, Gustaf Söderström, Alexander Tikhonov, and Eugène Balme.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1924, Rune Larsson ranks 328Before him are Alime Abdenanova, Priscilla Pointer, Faith Domergue, Göran Malmqvist, Emmanuel Scheffer, and Ingemar Johansson. After him are Leslie Phillips, Leopoldo Torre Nilsson, Arkady Vorobyov, John Winter, César Lattes, and Julio Musimessi. Among people deceased in 2016, Rune Larsson ranks 341Before him are Françoise Mallet-Joris, Malick Sidibé, Solomon W. Golomb, Jonathan Riley-Smith, Motiur Rahman Nizami, and Geydar Dzhemal. After him are Kimbo Slice, Lothar Späth, James Joseph Dresnok, Bobby Vee, Tom M. Apostol, and Amelia Bence.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Rune Larsson ranks 739 out of 1,612Before him are Åke Seyffarth (1919), Eivar Widlund (1905), Nils Karlsson (1917), Sven Landberg (1888), Gunnar Lindström (1896), and Olof Mellberg (1977). After him are Åke Johansson (1928), Bill Skarsgård (1990), Gustaf Söderström (1865), Glenn Strömberg (1960), Puma Swede (1976), and Sven Thofelt (1904).

Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Rune Larsson ranks 37Before him are Axel Norling (1884), Hjalmar Andersson (1889), Carl Silfverstrand (1885), Alfred Swahn (1879), Ingemar Johansson (1924), and Gunnar Lindström (1896). After him are Gustaf Söderström (1865), Sven Thofelt (1904), Magdalena Forsberg (1967), Johan Jarlén (1880), Nils Engdahl (1898), and Erik Larsson (1912).