Audun Boysen (10 May 1929 – 2 March 2000) was a
Norwegian
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middle distance runner. Born in
Bjarkøy
Bjarkøy is a former municipality in Troms county, Norway. The municipality existed from 1838 until it was merged with Harstad Municipality on 1 January 2013. The administrative centre of the municipality was the village of Nergården on the ...
and raised in
Rissa, he first represented
Rissa IL and later
IK Tjalve
Idrettsklubben Tjalve is a Norwegian athletics club from Oslo, founded on 27 December 1890. It is named after Þjálfi in Norse mythology.
It is one of the most prominent athletics clubs in Norway, and numerous members have represented Norway in ...
in Oslo.
Boysen was a prominent
800 metre runner in the 1950s, and he won a bronze medal at the
1956 Summer Olympics, a silver medal at the
1958 European Championships and another bronze at the
1954 European Championships. He set three world records over 1,000 metres, the last being 2:19.0 in 1955.
The same year he ran 800 metres in 1:45.9, setting a new Norwegian record. Incidentally, the man who beat him in that race, Belgian
Roger Moens
Roger Moens (born 26 April 1930) is a Belgian former middle-distance runner. In 1955 he broke Rudolf Harbig's long-standing world record over 800 meters. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome he won a silver medal in the 800 m.
Biography
On 3 Augu ...
, ran a world record time, with Boysen also under the old world record. That Norwegian record stood for 37 years until 3 July 1992 when it was broken by
Atle Douglas (1:45.15) and
Vebjørn Rodal (1:45.33). Rodal became Olympic champion four years later.
References
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Olympic athletes of Norway
1929 births
2000 deaths
Norwegian male middle-distance runners
Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Norway
European Athletics Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field)
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