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Ingemar Hedberg

1920 - 2019

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Ingemar Hedberg is the 1,321st most popular athlete (up from 1,386th in 2019), the 920th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,024th in 2019) and the 73rd most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 1,321 out of 6,025. Before him are Archon of Pella, Vilhelm Carlberg, André Jousseaume, Wilhelm Leichum, Ira Murchison, and Joseph Vissers. After him are Frank Schepke, German Sveshnikov, Roberto Battaglia, Jackson Scholz, Jessica Ennis-Hill, and Tsuyoshi Yamanaka.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 365. Before him are Franca Valeri, Idea Vilariño, Lucidio Sentimenti, Neville Brand, Raisa Aronova, and Cecilia Colledge. After him are Hemanta Mukherjee, Vera Ralston, Mariya Smirnova, Ralph Meeker, William Colby, and William Tenn. Among people deceased in 2019, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 415. Before him are Michael D. Coe, Walter Lübcke, Pino Caruso, Ernst-Wolfgang Böckenförde, Nina Fyodorova, and Erzsébet Gulyás-Köteles. After him are Francesco Janich, Gianni De Michelis, Ismail Petra of Kelantan, Francisco Toledo, Kornel Morawiecki, and Judith Krantz.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 920 out of 1,879. Before him are Harald Julin (1890), Inga Gentzel (1908), Axel Sjöblom (1882), Erik Granfelt (1883), Vilhelm Carlberg (1880), and Sven-Gunnar Larsson (1940). After him are Holger Hansson (1927), Johanna Sällström (1974), Ingrid Sandahl (1924), Albert Engström (1869), Åge Lundström (1890), and Peter Englund (1957).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Ingemar Hedberg ranks 73. Before him are Carl von Essen (1940), Hans Berglund (1918), Tore Eriksson (1937), Harald Julin (1890), Inga Gentzel (1908), and Vilhelm Carlberg (1880). After him are Lennart Strand (1921), Carl Forssell (1917), Karl Johan Svensson (1887), Per-Erik Hedlund (1897), Erik Abrahamsson (1898), and Johan Edman (1875).

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