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Gösta Pettersson

1940 - Today

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Gösta Artur Roland Pettersson (born 23 November 1940) is a retired Swedish cyclist. As an amateur, he competed in the individual and team road events at the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics and won one silver and two bronze medals, in 1964 and 1968. In 1968 he also took part in two track events: individual and team 4000 m pursuit. Pettersson's brothers, Erik, Sture and Tomas, were also Olympic cyclists, and their quartet was known as the Fåglum brothers. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gösta Pettersson is the 70th most popular cyclist (down from 66th in 2019), the 454th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 439th in 2019) and the most popular Swedish Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Gösta Pettersson ranks 70 out of 1,613. Before him are Josef Fischer, Lucien Buysse, Hennie Kuiper, Costante Girardengo, Alberto Contador, and Tony Rominger. After him are José Manuel Fuente, Italo De Zan, Maurice De Waele, Attilio Pavesi, Bernard Thévenet, and Jean Stablinski.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1940, Gösta Pettersson ranks 223. Before him are Jack Nicklaus, Dallas Long, Kunimitsu Takahashi, Gérard Larrousse, Jana Brejchová, and Silvio Marzolini. After him are Tommy Lawrence, Endre Szemerédi, Jaime Roldós Aguilera, Robert Walker, Charles Robert Jenkins, and John Havlicek.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Pettersson ranks 454 out of 1,879. Before him are Erik Nilsson (1916), Per Oscarsson (1927), Katarina Taikon (1932), Anna Palm de Rosa (1859), Gunilla Bergström (1942), and Gösta Ekman (1890). After him are Marika Green (1943), Pehr Kalm (1716), Carl Axel Magnus Lindman (1856), Victoria Silvstedt (1974), Bengt Gustavsson (1928), and Johan Andreas Murray (1740).

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Among CYCLISTS In Sweden

Among cyclists born in Sweden, Gösta Pettersson ranks 1. After him are Bernhard Britz (1906), Erik Pettersson (1944), Bernt Johansson (1953), Tomas Pettersson (1947), Magnus Bäckstedt (1975), Gustav Larsson (1980), Emma Johansson (1983), Jan Karlsson (1966), Michel Lafis (1967), Susanne Ljungskog (1976), and Thomas Löfkvist (1984).

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