Björn Bernt Ewald Ferm (born 10 August 1944) is a Swedish

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. He competed at the

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and

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and won an individual gold medal in 1968. In 1968, his team finished third but was stripped of the bronze medal after one member failed a drug test (for alcohol). Ferm won two individual bronze medals at world championships, in 1967 and 1969. Nationally he collected 12 titles that included one in

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fencing and 11 in modern pentathlon, five individual and six with a team. After retiring from competitions he became an Asia-based businessman, and as of 2009 headed of a company exporting

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s and

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1944 births Living people Swedish male modern pentathletes Swedish male épée fencers Olympic modern pentathletes of Sweden Modern pentathletes at the 1968 Summer Olympics Modern pentathletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon Competitors stripped of Summer Olympics medals World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Jönköping 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub