Hugo Wieslander
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Hugo Wieslander at the 1912 Olympics | ||||||||||
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| Born |
11 June 1889 Ljuder, Sweden | |||||||||
| Died |
24 May 1976 (aged 86) Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||
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| Sport | Decathlon | |||||||||
| Club | IFK Stockholm | |||||||||
Medal record
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Karl Hugo Wieslander (11 June 1889 – 24 May 1976) was a Swedish athlete, who competed in combined events. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg, Sweden in 1911 with a score of 5516 points. The following year he finished second in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, Sweden, 688 points behind Jim Thorpe.[1] In 1913, after it was discovered that Thorpe played professional baseball for a minor league team, Thorpe was disqualified for not being an amateur. Wieslander was therefore declared the winner of the 1912 Olympics. He was awarded the Gold medal but refused to accept it. In 1982 Jim Thorpe was reinstated by the IOC with Hugo Wieslander as joint winners of the 1912 Olympic decathlon.[2]
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- ↑ Hugo Wieslander. Sports-Reference
- ↑ Jim Reisler (26 November 2008). Cash and Carry: The Spectacular Rise and Hard Fall of C.C. Pyle, America's First Sports Agent. McFarland. pp. 60–. ISBN 978-0-7864-5262-0.
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| Preceded by First award |
World's Greatest Athlete 1912 (with  Jim Thorpe) |
Succeeded by Helge Løvland |
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