Knud Lundberg
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| Olympic medal record | |||
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| Bronze | London 1948 | Team Competition | |
Knud Lundberg (May 14, 1920 – August 12, 2002) was a Danish multi-talented sportsperson, who most notably won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He represented the Danish national team in football (soccer), team handball and basketball, and he won the Danish national championship in all three disciplines. He played his footballing career at Akademisk Boldklub.
In his civil life, Lundberg studied medicine and sports. Along with his athletic career, Lundberg worked as a sports journalist, and he was the first sports editor at the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information. After ending his sporting career, he, among other things, was a social democratic regional politician and a novelist. In the last years of his life, Lundberg suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
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