Gösta Lilliehöök (1884–1974)
Gösta Lilliehöök at the 1912 Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||
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Born | (1884-05-25)25 May 1884 Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||||
Died | 18 November 1974(1974-11-18) (aged 90) Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||||
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Sport | Modern pentathlon | |||||||||||
Club | A1 IF, Stockholm | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Gustaf Malcolm "Gösta" Lilliehöök (25 May 1884 – 18 November 1974) was a Swedish officer and modern pentathlete. He won a gold medal in the first contested modern pentathlon at the Olympic Games in 1912.[1]
Career
Lilliehöök was born on 25 May 1884 in Stockholm, Sweden, the son of First Marshal of the Court Carl Malcolm Lilliehöök and his wife Anna Ekelund. He was commissioned as an officer in Svea Artillery Regiment in 1906 with the rank of underlöjtnant. Lilliehöök was promoted to lieutenant in 1910 and to captain in 1918 after which he was placed in the reserve.[2]
He won a gold medal in the first contested modern pentathlon at the Olympic Games in 1912.[3] He later became one of the first five employees of the national Swedish radio.[4]
Personal life
In 1922, Lilliehöök married Anna de Fine Blauw (born 1891), the daughter of the artist Dick Blauw and Marie de Fine Beyer.[2]
References
- ^ "Gösta Lilliehöök". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 May 2021.
- ^ a b Lindblad, Göran, ed. (1924). Vem är det: svensk biografisk handbok. 1925 [Who is it: Swedish biographical handbook. 1925] (in Swedish). Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söners. pp. 445–446. SELIBR 6gnl7s754g5f6x82.
- ^ Nauright, John (6 April 2012). Sports around the World: History, Culture, and Practice [4 volumes]: History, Culture, and Practice. ABC-CLIO. p. 128. ISBN 978-1-59884-301-9.
- ^ Gustaf Lilliehöök. Swedish Olympics Committee
External links
- Gösta Lilliehöök at sports-reference.com
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- 1912: Gösta Lilliehöök (SWE)
- 1920: Gustaf Dyrssen (SWE)
- 1924: Bo Lindman (SWE)
- 1928: Sven Thofelt (SWE)
- 1932: Johan Oxenstierna (SWE)
- 1936: Gotthard Handrick (GER)
- 1948: William Grut (SWE)
- 1952: Lars Hall (SWE)
- 1956: Lars Hall (SWE)
- 1960: Ferenc Németh (HUN)
- 1964: Ferenc Török (HUN)
- 1968: Björn Ferm (SWE)
- 1972: András Balczó (HUN)
- 1976: Janusz Pyciak-Peciak (POL)
- 1980: Anatoli Starostin (URS)
- 1984: Daniele Masala (ITA)
- 1988: János Martinek (HUN)
- 1992: Arkadiusz Skrzypaszek (POL)
- 1996: Alexander Parygin (KAZ)
- 2000: Dmitri Svatkovskiy (RUS)
- 2004: Andrey Moiseyev (RUS)
- 2008: Andrey Moiseyev (RUS)
- 2012: David Svoboda (CZE)
- 2016: Aleksander Lesun (RUS)
- 2020: Joe Choong (GBR)
- 2024: Ahmed El-Gendy (EGY)