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Gösta Runö

1896 - 1922

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Gösta Otto Runö (9 December 1896 – 13 November 1922) was a Swedish modern pentathlete who won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Runö was a military pilot with the rank of lieutenant. In 1922 he crashed his Phönix D III plane near Linköping and died, aged 25. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gösta Runö is the 1,644th most popular athlete (up from 1,798th in 2019), the 1,008th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,122nd in 2019) and the 95th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Gösta Runö ranks 1,644 out of 6,025. Before him are Alberto Cova, Erik Algot Fredriksson, Philip Waruinge, Erik Elmsäter, Robert Stangland, and Masao Harada. After him are Emil Magnusson, Margit Schumann, Forrest Towns, Christina Lathan, Giuseppina Leone, and Nadezhda Khnykina-Dvalishvili.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1896, Gösta Runö ranks 242. Before him are Jack Pickford, Simon Barere, Albert Ball, Horacio Muñoz, Samuel Mosberg, and Robert E. Sherwood. After him are Alister Hardy, Gopal Swarup Pathak, Rogers Hornsby, Carl Abrahamsson, Rafael Garza Gutiérrez, and Liam O'Flaherty. Among people deceased in 1922, Gösta Runö ranks 124. Before him are Gaston Bonnier, Takamine Jōkichi, Lev Chugaev, A. V. Dicey, August Palm, and Cathal Brugha. After him are Pál Simon, Anna Missuna, Alfred Capus, John Butler Yeats, Liberato Marcial Rojas, and William Desmond Taylor.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Gösta Runö ranks 1,008 out of 1,879. Before him are Assar Rönnlund (1935), Olle Håkansson (1927), Gösta Sandberg (1932), Erik Algot Fredriksson (1885), Erik Elmsäter (1919), and Johan Elmander (1981). After him are Emil Magnusson (1887), Majgull Axelsson (1947), Agnes von Krusenstjerna (1894), Jan Jönsson (1960), Evert Gunnarsson (1929), and Johnny Höglin (1943).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Gösta Runö ranks 95. Before him are Carl Bertilsson (1889), Gunnar Larsson (1944), Gunnar Höjer (1875), Ruth Svedberg (1903), Erik Algot Fredriksson (1885), and Erik Elmsäter (1919). After him are Emil Magnusson (1887), Evert Gunnarsson (1929), Ulf Sterner (1941), Carl Abrahamsson (1896), Nils Hellsten (1885), and Folke Alnevik (1919).

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