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| Full name | Ingemar Harald Robert Hedberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1920-03-08)8 March 1920 Örebro, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 May 2019(2019-05-19) (aged 99) Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Brunnsvikens Kanotklubb, Stockholm | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ingemar Harald Robert Hedberg (8 March 1920 – 19 May 2019) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Hedberg also won three gold medals at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen, earning them in the K-1 4×500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-2 1000 m events. He died in May 2019 at the age of 99.
References
- ^ Ingemar Hedberg Archived 8 October 2012 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Ingemar Hedberg. Swedish Olympic Committee
- "Dödsannonser - Sök efter dödsannonser på familjesidan.se".
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 1: flatwater (now sprint). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–41 at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 January 2010). Additional archives: 13 January 2016.
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007) – Part 2: rest of flatwater (now sprint) and remaining canoeing disciplines. CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 42–83 at WebCite (archived 9 November 2009). Additional archives: 11 March 2016.
External links
- Ingemar Hedberg at Olympedia (archive)
- Ingemar Hedberg at Olympics.com
- Ingemar Hedberg at the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (in Swedish) (English translation)
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- Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
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- Olympic canoeists for Sweden
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