Verné Lesche
Athlete
1917 – 2002
Who was Verné Lesche?
Verné Lesche, married Vanberg, was a speed skater from Finland who twice won the World Allround Championships.
Lesche was born in Helsinki, Finland, and already skated a world record in 1933 when she was only 15 years old. Her successes continued and she won the world title for the first time in 1939, when Tampere hosted the World Allround Championships. She won it for the second time in Drammen in 1947, making her the only speed skater in history to have won a medal at the World Allround Championships both before and after World War II. At those 1947 World Championships, Lesche won all four distances and the difference in samalog points with the silver medallist, Norwegian skater Else Marie Christiansen, was 20.923 points – the largest difference in history between numbers one and two at an international championship. Of this 20.923 point difference, 6.983 points were the difference between Lesche and Christiansen on the 3,000 m, while Lesche recorded a 9.690 point difference over Christiansen on the 5,000 m by skating that distance 1 minute and 36.9 seconds faster than the Norwegian.
A very rare event took place at the Finnish Allround Championships in 1948.
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- Born
- Oct 11, 1917
Finland - Also known as
- Verne Lesche
- Lived in
- Helsinki
- Died
- Apr 21, 2002
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on July 23, 2013
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