Gunnar Larsson
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Men's Swimming | |||
| Gold | Munich 1972 | 200m Individual Medley | |
| Gold | Munich 1972 | 400m Individual Medley | |
Gunnar Larsson (born May 12, 1951) is a former medley swimmer from Sweden. He won the 400 m Individual Medley at the 1972 Summer Olympics with a margin of 0.002 seconds to the second, American Tim McKee. He also won the 200 m Individual Medley event at the same Olympic Games, and the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.
A year later, Larsson won the 200m Medley at the first official FINA World Championships in Belgrade. Together with Arne Borg he's considered to be Sweden's greatest swimmer of all time. In 1979 Larsson was inducted in the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
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- Malmö SS
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| Olympic champions in men's 200 m individual medley |
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| 1968: Charles Hickcox | 1972: Gunnar Larsson | 1984: Alex Baumann | 1988: Tamás Darnyi | 1992: Tamás Darnyi | 1996: Attila Czene | 2000: Massimiliano Rosolino | 2004: Michael Phelps |
| Olympic champions in men's 400 m individual medley |
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| 1964: Richard Roth | 1968: Charles Hickcox | 1972: Gunnar Larsson | 1976: Rod Strachan | 1980: Aleksandr Sidorenko | 1984: Alex Baumann | 1988: Tamás Darnyi | 1992: Tamás Darnyi | 1996: Tom Dolan | 2000: Tom Dolan | 2004: Michael Phelps |
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