Olle Laessker
Swedish track and field athlete
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Born | 2 April 1922 | ||||||||||||||
Died | 19 September 1992 (aged 70) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||||||
Event(s) | 100–400 m, long jump | ||||||||||||||
Club | Jönköping AIF Gavle SGF[1] | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best(s) | 100 m – 10.7 (1947) 200 m – 21.8 (1945) 400 m – 48.8 (1945) LJ – 7.50 m (1946)[2] | ||||||||||||||
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Olle Laessker (2 April 1922 – 19 September 1992) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in long jump and sprinting events.[3]
He had his best achievements at the 1946 European Athletics Championships in Oslo, where he won the long jump by a margin of two centimeters, then teamed up with Stig Danielsson, Inge Nilsson and Stig Håkansson to win a second gold for Sweden in the 4 × 100 metres relay.[4] He was Sweden's first European medallist in the long jump.
Laessker was awarded the Stora grabbars märke for his achievements, listed as the 116th recipient in the sport of athletics.[1] He was the Swedish long jump champion in 1946 and 1947.[5]
References
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- ^ a b Medlemmar (in Swedish). Storagrabbar. Retrieved on 2014-10-16.
- ^ Olle Laessker. trackfield.brinkster.net
- ^ Peter Matthews: Athletics 1993, Windsor 1993 OCLC 282313943
- ^ European Championships (Men). GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 2014-10-16.
- ^ Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon. Stockholm: Nordisk Familjeboks Förlags AB. 1938–1949
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European Athletics Championships champions in men's long jump
- 1934:
Wilhelm Leichum (GER)
- 1938:
Wilhelm Leichum (GER)
- 1946:
Olle Laessker (SWE)
- 1950:
Torfi Bryngeirsson (ISL)
- 1954:
Ödön Földessy (HUN)
- 1958:
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)
- 1962:
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)
- 1966:
Lynn Davies (GBR)
- 1969:
Igor Ter-Ovanesyan (URS)
- 1971:
Max Klauß (GDR)
- 1974:
Valeriy Pidluzhnyy (URS)
- 1978:
Jacques Rousseau (FRA)
- 1982:
Lutz Dombrowski (GDR)
- 1986:
Robert Emmiyan (URS)
- 1990:
Dietmar Haaf (FRG)
- 1994:
Ivaylo Mladenov (BUL)
- 1998:
Kirill Sosunov (RUS)
- 2002:
Olexiy Lukashevych (UKR)
- 2006:
Andrew Howe (ITA)
- 2010:
Christian Reif (GER)
- 2012:
Sebastian Bayer (GER)
- 2014:
Greg Rutherford (GBR)
- 2016:
Greg Rutherford (GBR)
- 2018:
Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
- 2022:
Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)
- 2024:
Miltiadis Tentoglou (GRE)