Anthon Olsen

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Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Silver	Stockholm 1912	Team Competition

Danish soccer team at the 1912 Olympics, from left: Anthon Olsen, Sophus "Krølben" Nielsen, Harald Hansen, Paul Berth, Poul "Tist" Nielsen, Sophus Hansen, Nils Middelboe, Charles Buchwald, Oskar Nielsen, Emil Jørgensen, Vilhelm Wolfhagen.

Ole Anthon Olsen (September 14, 1889 in Copenhagen – March 17, 1972 in Gentofte) was a Danish amateur football (soccer) player, who played in the forward position. He scored 14 goals in 16 games for the Denmark national football team, and won a silver medal at the 1912 Summer Olympics.

Born in Copenhagen, Olsen played for a handful of Copenhagen clubs. While playing for B 93, he made his Danish national team debut. He was selected for the Danish squad at the 1912 Summer Olympics, playing all Denmark's three games at the tournament. He scored seven goals in the tournament, and was Danish to scorer as the team won olympic silver medals. After the 1912 Olympics, he scored six goals in five games until September 1915, making his Danish national team total 13 goals in eight games.

With B 93, he won the 1916 Danish football championship, scoring two goals in the championship final 3-2 win against KB. For the national team, he did not recover his impressive goal scoring form from his early years, and in his last eight national team games until October 1927, he scored one goal in eight games. He ended his national team career in 1927, having won his second Danish championship with B 93.

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v t e Denmark squad – 1912 Olympic Silver Medalists

Berth Buchwald Castella Christoffersen Drescher Dyrberg H. Hansen S. Hansen Jørgensen Lykke Malmquist Middelboe Morville P. Nielsen S. Nielsen Nørland Olsen Petersen Thufason Wolfhagen

Persondata
Name	Olsen, Anthon
Alternative names
Short description	Danish footballer
Date of birth	September 14, 1889
Place of birth
Date of death	March 17, 1972
Place of death

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