Eddy Sixten Jernberg ( Swede Eddy Sixten Jernberg , February 6, 1929 , , Kopparberg - July 14, 2012 , Mura , Dalarna ) - Swedish skier , four-time Olympic champion, winner of nine Olympic awards, participant in three Olympics, multiple world champion. He specialized in marathon skiing races. The first athlete to win 9 awards at the Winter Olympics.
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| Full name | Eddy Sixten Jernberg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of Birth | February 6, 1929 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of Birth | , Kopparberg , Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | July 14, 2012 (aged 83) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Mura | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 177 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 72 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club | Lima if | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Status | completed his career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| End of career | 1964 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Biography
He became famous at the age of 20 when he won the 1949 Dalarna County Championship . He first appeared in the Swedish ski team in 1954 at the World Championships in Falun , and ended his career in 1964 after the Olympic Games in Innsbruck .
Twice won in Vasaloppet (1955 and 1960).
For the 1972 Winter Olympics in Sapporo , Yernberg was invited by the Japanese self-defense forces in the winter of 1969-70 to help him choose a track for biathlon .
Preparation
Sixten is known for his enormous stamina. He regarded the Swedish team as a vacation. He introduced a very serious training in Sweden and trained on the verge of self-torture. For example, he parked his car 100 km from the training camp and fled to him on skis. He did not like to miss a day without training. In one start, he had a fever and coughed up blood, but still finished the 50 km race. [4] With this slightly insane behavior, he set the standard for future generations of Swedish skiers. So, Gunde Svan admitted that Sixten was a model for his preparation.
It seemed that he (Sixten) did not like his own body and tried to punish him in various ways
- Gunde Swan [5]
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His motto in the competition was: "Start at maximum and accelerate."
Results
In the period 1952-1954. won 134 starts out of 363; during the period of highest success in 1955-1960. started 161 times, won 86 races.
Winter Olympics
Cortina d'Ampezzo 1956
- : silver 50.14 (+0.35)
- : Silver 1: 44.30 (+0.24)
- : Gold 2: 50.27 (+1.18)
- [1] : bronze 2: 17.42 (+2.12)
Squaw Valley 1960
- 15 km: silver
- 30 km: gold
- 50 km: 5th place
- 4 × 10 km: 4th place
Innsbruck 1964
- 15 km: bronze
- 30 km: 5th place
- 50 km: gold
- 4 × 10 km: gold
World Championships
Falun 1954
- 30 km: 4th place
- 4 x 10 km relay: bronze
Lahti 1958
- 15 km: 4th place
- 30 km: bronze
- 50 km: gold
- 4 x 10 km relay: gold
Zakopane 1962
- 30 km: 10th place
- 50 km: gold
- 4 x 10 km relay: gold
Rewards
- (with ) - 1956
- - 1960
- Mohammed Taher Trophy ( IOC Cross-Country Ski Award) - 1965
See also
- List of multiple Olympic champions
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 4th stage (33.44); along with Lennart Larsson (35.46), Gunnar Samuelsson (34.22) and Per-Eric Larsson (33.50)
- ↑ "Stage 2, together with Karl-Oke Asp , Janne Stefansson and Assar Rönnlund
- ↑ German National Library , Berlin State Library , Bavarian State Library , etc. Record # 1038701678 // General regulatory control (GND) - 2012—2016.
- ↑ http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/vintersport/skidor/article8161216.ab article 8161216 at www.aftonbladet.se (Swedish)
- ↑ Fran sixten till Kalla (From Sixten to Kalla), a documentary about the history of Swedish skiing over the past 100 years. Jens Lind, Sveriges Television 2008 (Swedish)