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Klas Lestander

1931 - 2023

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Klas Ivar Vilhelm Lestander (18 April 1931 – 13 January 2023) was a Swedish biathlete who won a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. Lestander started as a cross-country skier, but he was also an experienced hunter, and thus ended up with biathlon. At the 1960 Olympics he placed 15th out of 30 in skiing, but became the first international competitor to ever hit all 20 targets, and hence won the gold medal. His rival Aleksandr Privalov needed to clear three targets out of five at the last post to win the event, but managed only two, and ended up with a bronze medal. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Klas Lestander is the 207th most popular athlete (down from 162nd in 2019), the 437th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 413th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Klas Lestander ranks 207 out of 6,025. Before him are Tilly Fleischer, George Rhoden, Berit Mørdre, Gunnar Höckert, Gaston Roelants, and Imre Németh. After him are Samuel Jones, Gyula Kellner, Saint-George Ashe, Jonni Myyrä, Igor Ter-Ovanesyan, and Otto Herschmann.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1931, Klas Lestander ranks 216. Before him are Dritëro Agolli, Takashi Ono, Tom Wesselmann, Manolo Escobar, Guido Messina, and George Baker. After him are Fred Brooks, Moshé Mizrahi, Dominique Lapierre, Andrew Hill, Scotty Moore, and Bernard Francis Law. Among people deceased in 2023, Klas Lestander ranks 195. Before him are Abdul Ati al-Obeidi, Ingrid Haebler, Antoni Martí, Solomon Perel, Ahmad Jamal, and Ian Hacking. After him are Pōhiva Tuʻiʻonetoa, Richard Belzer, Bray Wyatt, David Albahari, Robbie Robertson, and Ralph Boston.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Klas Lestander ranks 437 out of 1,879. Before him are Eugène Jansson (1862), Olof Rudbeck the Younger (1660), William Chambers (1723), Greta Thunberg (2003), Frans G. Bengtsson (1894), and Erik Gustaf Boström (1842). After him are Arvid Posse (1820), Knut Nordahl (1920), Carola Häggkvist (1966), Ebba Brahe (1596), Alexander Skarsgård (1976), and Björn Nordqvist (1942).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Klas Lestander ranks 8. Before him are Henrik Sjöberg (1875), Eric Lemming (1880), Oscar Swahn (1847), Karl Staaf (1881), John Ljunggren (1919), and William Petersson (1895). After him are August Nilsson (1872), Martin Lundström (1918), Nils von Kantzow (1885), Erik Almlöf (1891), Gunnar Sköld (1894), and Bo Lindman (1899).

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