Helge Løvland
Norwegian track and field athlete
Løvland at the 1920 Olympic Games | |
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Full name | Helge Andreas Løvland |
Born | 11 May 1890 (1890-05-11) Froland, Norway |
Died | 26 April 1984 (1984-04-27) (aged 93) Oslo, Norway |
Helge Andreas Løvland (11 May 1890, Froland – 26 April 1984, Oslo) was a Norwegian track and field athlete. He won the gold medal in the decathlon at the 1920 Olympics. Løvland was awarded the Egebergs Ærespris in 1919. Representing the club IF Ørnulf, he died in Oslo in 1984.[1]
During the occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany he was arrested in August 1943 during the crackdown on military officers. He was imprisoned in Schildberg and Luckenwalde.[2]
References
External links
- Helge Løvland at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
- Helge Løvland at Olympedia
- Helge Løvland at Olympics.com
- Helge Løvland at Olympic.org (archived)
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Preceded by | Egebergs Ærespris 1919 | Succeeded by |
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- 1912: Jim Thorpe (USA)
- 1920: Eero Lehtonen (FIN)
- 1924: Eero Lehtonen (FIN)
- 1912: Jim Thorpe (USA)
- 1920: Helge Løvland (NOR)
- 1924: Harold Osborn (USA)
- 1928: Paavo Yrjölä (FIN)
- 1932: Jim Bausch (USA)
- 1936: Glenn Morris (USA)
- 1948: Bob Mathias (USA)
- 1952: Bob Mathias (USA)
- 1956: Milt Campbell (USA)
- 1960: Rafer Johnson (USA)
- 1964: Willi Holdorf (EUA)
- 1968: Bill Toomey (USA)
- 1972: Mykola Avilov (URS)
- 1976: Bruce Jenner (USA)
- 1980: Daley Thompson (GBR)
- 1984: Daley Thompson (GBR)
- 1988: Christian Schenk (GDR)
- 1992: Robert Změlík (TCH)
- 1996: Dan O'Brien (USA)
- 2000: Erki Nool (EST)
- 2004: Roman Šebrle (CZE)
- 2008: Bryan Clay (USA)
- 2012: Ashton Eaton (USA)
- 2016: Ashton Eaton (USA)
- 2020: Damian Warner (CAN)
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