Gösta Åsbrink
Olympic athlete
1881 – 1966
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Who was Gösta Åsbrink?
Karl "Gösta" Åsbrink was a Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete who won a gold medal in the 1908 Summer Olympics and a silver medal in the 1912 Summer Olympics.
Gösta Åsbrink's 1908 gold medal was won in London for a team event, as the Swedish men's gymnastics team came in first. Four years later, competing before a home audience in 1912 Stockholm, he won an individual silver medal in the first contested Modern pentathlon of the Olympic Games.
Gösta Åsbrink died at the age of 84.
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- Born
- Nov 18, 1881
Stockholm - Also known as
- Gosta Asbrink
- Lived in
- Stockholm
- Died
- Apr 19, 1966
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on July 23, 2013
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