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Folke Alnevik

1919 - 2020

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Arvid Folke Alnevik (31 December 1919 – 17 August 2020) was a Swedish sprinter who specialized in the 400 metres. His best results were in the 4×400 metre relay, winning bronze medals at the 1946 European Championships and the 1948 Summer Olympics. Alnevik was a career military officer and retired with the rank of Major. After that he worked as a sports official and was a driving force behind promotion of golf in the Gävle area. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Folke Alnevik is the 1,759th most popular athlete (down from 1,671st in 2019), the 1,043rd most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,105th in 2019) and the 101st most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Folke Alnevik ranks 1,759 out of 6,025. Before him are Ross Collinge, Charilaos Vasilakos, Ivan Kizimov, Leni Schmidt, Vyacheslav Vedenin, and Zygmunt Chychła. After him are Bill Hobbs, Paula Ivan, Hugo Simon, Victor Verschueren, Bruno Junk, and Chris Berger.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1919, Folke Alnevik ranks 309. Before him are Richard Scarry, Fritz Schwab, Louise Bennett-Coverley, Henriette Avram, Karel Senecký, and Mary Midgley. After him are Jean Tamini, Norman Lane, Naim Talu, Clifford Truesdell, Forrest Tucker, and Bill Nicholson. Among people deceased in 2020, Folke Alnevik ranks 636. Before him are Li Wenliang, Juan José Pizzuti, Spencer Davis, Hadi Khosroshahi, Nicette Bruno, and Boris Plotnikov. After him are Gabriel Ochoa Uribe, Bill Hobbs, Michael Wheeler, José Jiménez Lozano, Johnny Mandel, and Leonid Potapov.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Folke Alnevik ranks 1,043 out of 1,879. Before him are Eva Dahlgren (1960), Claes-Göran Hederström (1945), Göran Sonnevi (1939), Ulf Schmidt (1934), Andreas Granqvist (1985), and Bernt Johansson (1953). After him are Lasse Holm (1943), Nils Widforss (1880), Warner Oland (1879), Christer Björkman (1957), Håkan Loob (1960), and Otto Nilsson (1879).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Folke Alnevik ranks 101. Before him are Gösta Runö (1896), Emil Magnusson (1887), Evert Gunnarsson (1929), Ulf Sterner (1941), Carl Abrahamsson (1896), and Nils Hellsten (1885). After him are Otto Nilsson (1879), Eric Carlberg (1880), Gunnar Åkerlund (1923), Sven-Åke Lundbäck (1948), Georg de Laval (1883), and Lennart Magnusson (1924).

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