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Leonard Peterson

1885 - 1956

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Carl Johan Leonard Peterson (30 October 1885 – 15 April 1956) was a Swedish gymnast who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team event in 1908. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Leonard Peterson is the 84th most popular gymnast (up from 92nd in 2019), the 871st most popular biography from Sweden (up from 927th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Gymnast.

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Among GYMNASTS

Among gymnasts, Leonard Peterson ranks 84 out of 370Before him are Hjalmar Cedercrona, Haruhiro Yamashita, Georg Brustad, Gösta Åsbrink, Shuji Tsurumi, and Margarita Nikolaeva. After him are Larisa Petrik, Yuri Titov, Per Bertilsson, Franco Menichelli, Oswald Holmberg, and Ladislav Vácha.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1885, Leonard Peterson ranks 220Before him are Tommaso Costantino, Percy Hobart, Américo Castro, Charles Henry Bartlett, José Durand Laguna, and Jaafar Al-Askari. After him are Carl Silfverstrand, Leonida Tonelli, Prudencia Ayala, Aldo Palazzeschi, Aquilino Ribeiro, and Otto Kruger. Among people deceased in 1956, Leonard Peterson ranks 178Before him are Nikolai Panin, Fernand Jourdant, Georg Brustad, Pyotr Konchalovsky, Khadr El-Touni, and Benjamin Glazer. After him are Otto Scheff, Christian Gitsham, Artur Văitoianu, Billy Bishop, Frank Brangwyn, and Werner Haas.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Leonard Peterson ranks 871 out of 1,879Before him are Sven Fahlman (1914), Nick Bostrom (1973), Mona Malm (1935), Gunder Hägg (1918), Ivan Betskoy (1704), and Tomas Alfredson (1965). After him are Kjell Rosén (1921), Göran Malmqvist (1924), Axel Nordlander (1879), Henry Källgren (1931), Carl Silfverstrand (1885), and Kjell Johansson (1946).

Among GYMNASTS In Sweden

Among gymnasts born in Sweden, Leonard Peterson ranks 12Before him are Carl Folcker (1889), Ann-Sofi Pettersson (1932), Carl Hårleman (1886), Hugo Jahnke (1886), Haakon Sörvik (1886), and Gösta Åsbrink (1881). After him are Per Bertilsson (1892), Hjördis Nordin (1932), Axel Sjöblom (1882), Ingrid Sandahl (1924), Sven Forssman (1882), and Rolf Johnsson (1889).