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Erik Larsson at the 1936 Olympics
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Born | 12 April 1912 Kurravaara, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 10 March 1982 (aged 69) Kiruna, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 59 kg (130 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Cross-country skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | IFK Kiruna | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Erik August Larsson (12 April 1912 – 10 March 1982) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s. He won two medals at the 1936 Winter OlympicsinGarmisch-Partenkirchen with a gold in the 18 km and a bronze in the 4 × 10 km relay. The same year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Larsson also won a bronze in the 4 × 10 km relay at the 1935 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.[1][2]
Larsson was born as the second youngest of six siblings in a religious Finnish-speaking family. In 1935, he started working as a cleaner at the Kiruna iron ore mine in the summer and as a lumberjack in the winter. In 1939, after attending a prayer meeting in Kurravaara he gave up his sport career and became a Laestadian Christian. He was later a preacher in the Firstborn Laestadian congregation in Kiruna. His son Lars became a preacher in Luleå, while his granddaughter Åsa Larsson was a tax lawyer and a writer of crime novels.[1]
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).[3]
Year | Age | 18 km | 50 km | 4 × 10 km relay |
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1936 | 23 | Gold | — | Bronze |
Year | Age | 18 km | 50 km | 4 × 10 km relay |
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1935 | 22 | — | — | Bronze |
1938 | 25 | 12 | — | — |
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Preceded by | Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal 1936 |
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