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Tore Sjöstrand

1921 - 2011

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Thore "Tore" Ingvar Sjöstrand (31 July 1921 – 26 January 2011) was a Swedish steeplechase runner. He won a bronze medal at the 1946 European Championships and a gold at the 1948 Summer Olympics. Domestically Sjöstrand won two titles, in 1947 and 1948, and finished second five times. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Tore Sjöstrand has received more than 12,192 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia. Tore Sjöstrand is the 349th most popular athlete (up from 473rd in 2019), the 584th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 674th in 2019) and the 14th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Tore Sjöstrand ranks 349 out of 6,025. Before him are Ivo Van Damme, Birgit Fischer, Julius Skutnabb, Nicolae Neagoe, Pål Tyldum, and Franjo Mihalić. After him are Norman Read, Harri Larva, Morgan Taylor, Magnar Solberg, Bob Kiesel, and Tamara Tyshkevich.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Tore Sjöstrand ranks 241. Before him are Ida Fink, Rinaldo Martino, Elizabeth Wilson, Ernst Haas, Krzysztof Kamil Baczyński, and Jack Kramer. After him are Mustafa Ben Halim, Rodney Dangerfield, Jamie Uys, Ken Adam, Maria Gorokhovskaya, and Yevgeniya Rudneva. Among people deceased in 2011, Tore Sjöstrand ranks 228. Before him are Héctor Núñez, Kenneth Mars, James Arness, Andrzej Lepper, Hidemaro Watanabe, and Ricky Bruch. After him are Nat Lofthouse, Karen Khachaturian, Ulrich Biesinger, Karl Aage Præst, Lilian Jackson Braun, and Andrée Chedid.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Tore Sjöstrand ranks 584 out of 1,879. Before him are Lisa Fonssagrives (1911), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Gustaf Lundberg (1695), Dagmar Lange (1914), Ricky Bruch (1946), and Fredrik Henrik af Chapman (1721). After him are Bror Mellberg (1923), Nils Ramm (1903), Princess Sofia, Duchess of Värmland (1984), Henry Carlsson (1917), Knut Kroon (1906), and Kent Karlsson (1945).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Tore Sjöstrand ranks 14. Before him are August Nilsson (1872), Erik Lundqvist (1908), John Ljunggren (1919), Gert Fredriksson (1919), Henry Eriksson (1920), and Arne Åhman (1925). After him are Erik Abrahamsson (1898), Hjalmar Andersson (1889), Hans Berglund (1918), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Georg Åberg (1893), and Ann-Britt Leyman (1922).

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