Kristian Henrik Rudolf Sjöberg (20 January 1875 in

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– 1 August 1905 in Helsingør) was a

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, gymnast and medical student. He competed as the only Swedish participant at the

1896 Summer Olympics The 1896 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 1896, Therinoí Olympiakoí Agónes 1896), officially known as the Games of the I Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 1ης Ολυμπιάδας, Agónes tis 1is Ol ...

in Athens. Sjöberg from 1892 competed for Stockholm AF, and in the same year he held the unofficial

record for the long jump with 6.09 metres, even though he completely lacked the support from the Swedish Sports Confederation he refused to see himself omitted from the first Olympic Games. At the

, Sjöberg competed in five different events, one on the athletics track, three in the athletics field and one as a gymnast, on the track he competed in the

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, his time is unknown and records only show he finished in fourth or fifth place in his heat so didn't qualify for the final. In the athletics field he competed in the discus, his distance is unknown and finished outside the top four, in the long jump, again his distance is unknown and was placed outside the top four, his best result was in the

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where he cleared 1.60 metres to finish in fourth place just 5 centimetres short of a medal. Sjöberg also competed in the vault event in the gymnastics with 14 other competitors, in which they had two minutes to carry out as many jumps as they wished, again no score or position is recorded for his efforts. Sjöberg drowned in the eastern Denmark town of Helsingør in 1905.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sjoberg, Henrik 1875 births 1905 deaths Olympic athletes of Sweden Olympic gymnasts of Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1896 Summer Olympics 19th-century sportsmen Gymnasts at the 1896 Summer Olympics Swedish male sprinters Swedish male long jumpers Swedish male artistic gymnasts Olympic male high jumpers Deaths by drowning Sportspeople from Stockholm