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Hugo Wieslander

1889 - 1976

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Karl Hugo Wieslander (11 June 1889 – 24 May 1976) was a Swedish athlete. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg in 1911 with a score of 5516 points. The following year, he finished second in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, 688 points behind Jim Thorpe. In 1913, after it was discovered that Thorpe had played semi-professional baseball for a minor league team, Thorpe was disqualified for not being an amateur. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Wieslander is the 966th most popular athlete (up from 1,999th in 2019), the 805th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,163rd in 2019) and the 50th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Hugo Wieslander ranks 966 out of 6,025. Before him are Hassiba Boulmerka, Henry Carr, Shuhei Nishida, Robert Lindsay, Viktor Kapitonov, and László Szollás. After him are Kinue Hitomi, Harry Porter, Giovanni Zucchi, Guy de Luget, Brenda Jones, and Bernard Morel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Hugo Wieslander ranks 229. Before him are Yakup Kadri Karaosmanoğlu, William Justin Kroll, Ted Wilde, Carl Folcker, Nezihe Muhiddin, and Carl O. Sauer. After him are Francis Spellman, Sven Markelius, Efrem Zimbalist, Nina Agadzhanova, Hjalmar Andersson, and Matilde Hidalgo. Among people deceased in 1976, Hugo Wieslander ranks 192. Before him are Fritz Rasp, Taos Amrouche, Abram Room, Jimmy Reed, Ritwik Ghatak, and Alexander Brailowsky. After him are Mortimer Wheeler, Stith Thompson, Jens Bjørneboe, Carl Benjamin Boyer, Narve Bonna, and Markus Reiner.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Hugo Wieslander ranks 805 out of 1,879. Before him are Kurt Axelsson (1941), Max Martin (1971), Birger Sörvik (1879), Kjell Espmark (1930), Jean-Paul Vonderburg (1964), and Brita Borg (1926). After him are Gunnar Johansson (1924), Gerhard Louis De Geer (1854), August Malmström (1829), Harald Edelstam (1913), Sven Markelius (1889), and Birgit Cullberg (1908).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Hugo Wieslander ranks 50. Before him are Bo Ekelund (1894), Irma Johansson (1932), Gustaf Weidel (1890), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Georg Åberg (1893), and Birger Sörvik (1879). After him are Gunnar Lindström (1896), Ingemar Johansson (1924), Nils Skoglund (1906), Hjalmar Andersson (1889), Arvid Knöppel (1867), and Bengt Eriksson (1931).

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