Erik August Larsson (12 April 1912 – 10 March 1982) was a
Swedish
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cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s. He won two medals at the
1936 Winter Olympics
The 1936 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IV Olympic Winter Games (german: IV. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Garmisch-Partenkirchen 1936 ( bar, Garmasch-Partakurch 1936), were a winter multi-sport event held from 6 to 16 ...
in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen with a gold in the 18 km and a bronze in the 4 × 10 km relay. The same year he was awarded the
Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Larsson also won a bronze in the 4 × 10 km relay at the
1935 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.
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Larsson was born as the second youngest of six siblings in a religious Finnish-speaking family. In 1935, he started working as a cleaner at the Kiruna iron ore mine in the summer and as a lumberjack in the winter. In 1939, after attending a prayer meeting in Kurravaara he gave up his sport career and became a Laestadian Christian. He was later a preacher in the Firstborn Laestadian congregation in Kiruna. His son Lars became a preacher in Luleå, while his granddaughter ]Åsa Larsson
Åsa Larsson (born 28 June 1966) is a Swedish crime-fiction writer. Although born in Uppsala, she was raised in Kiruna in the far north. Prior to becoming a full-time writer, Larsson was a tax lawyer, a profession she shares with the heroine of h ...
was a tax lawyer and a writer of crime novels.[
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Cross-country skiing results
All results are sourced from the International Ski Federation (FIS).
Olympic Games
* 2 medals – (1 gold, 1 bronze)
World Championships
* 1 medal – (1 bronze)
References
External links
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1912 births
1982 deaths
People from Kiruna Municipality
Swedish male cross-country skiers
Cross-country skiers at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in cross-country skiing
FIS Nordic World Ski Championships medalists in cross-country skiing
Medalists at the 1936 Winter Olympics
Swedish Lutherans
20th-century Lutherans