Björn Barrefors (born October 27, 1987, in

Uppsala, Sweden Uppsala (, or all ending in , ; archaically spelled ''Upsala'') is the county seat of Uppsala County and the List of urban areas in Sweden by population, fourth-largest city in Sweden, after Stockholm, Gothenburg, and Malmö. It had 177,074 inha ...

) is a

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decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ ...

and heptathlete. He attended and competed for the

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. Barrefors was a four time first team

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athlete, gaining the honor twice in the outdoor decathlon (2009 and 2012) and twice for the indoor heptathlon (also in 2009 and 2012). Barrefors was the University of Nebraska's 2013 male student-athlete of the year and is the only four-time academic

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n in the institution of higher learning's history. Of those rare four academic all-American honors, he was a three-time first-team academic all-American with fellow teammate and academic grea
Levi Gipson
Barrefors joins three others in this feat:

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Virginia Stahr
and

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. He graduated from the University on May 4, 2013, with a master's degree in computer science.

References

External links

*Barrefors Website

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