Erling Kristiansen

Olympic athlete

1923 – 2009

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Who was Erling Kristiansen?

Erling Kristiansen was a Norwegian cyclist.

He took eight individual national championships, and fifteen team championships, representing the club IK Hero. He competed at the World Championships in 1948, 1949 and 1950, and at the Olympic Games in 1948 and 1952. At the 1948 Summer Olympics he did not finish in either event, but at the 1952 Summer Olympics he finished 25th in the individual road race and 10th in the team road race. From 1959 top 1960 he was the deputy leader of the Norwegian Cycling Federation.

He died in July 2009 in Rud, Akershus.

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Born
Oct 3, 1923
Norway
Lived in
  • Oslo
Died
Jul 25, 2009
Akershus

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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