Knud Lundberg (14 May 1920 – 12 August 2002) was a Danish multi-talented sportsperson, who most notably won a
bronze medal with the
Denmark national football team at the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...
.
He represented the Danish national team in
football,
handball and
basketball
Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately in diameter) through the defender's h ...
, and he won the Danish national championship in all three disciplines. He played his footballing career at
Akademisk Boldklub
Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (or AB) is a Danish professional football club from Gladsaxe north of Copenhagen,
currently playing at the 3rd highest level of Danish domestic football in the Danish 2nd Division group 1.
The club was established on ...
.
In his civil life, Lundberg studied
medicine
Medicine is the science and practice of caring for a patient, managing the diagnosis, prognosis, prevention, treatment, palliation of their injury or disease, and promoting their health. Medicine encompasses a variety of health care pr ...
and
sports
Sport pertains to any form of competitive physical activity or game that aims to use, maintain, or improve physical ability and skills while providing enjoyment to participants and, in some cases, entertainment to spectators. Sports can, ...
. Along with his athletic career, Lundberg worked as a
sports journalist, and he was the first sports
editor at the Danish newspaper ''
Dagbladet Information'', a sports editor at the social democratic newspaper
Aktuelt
''Det fri Aktuelt'' was a daily newspaper published in Copenhagen, Denmark, between 1871 and 2001. It was the first socialist and the earliest newspaper published by a labor union in the world. In addition, it was the last major social democrat n ...
, editor of the annual
Fodbold Jul are among his other editorial posts. After ending his sporting career, he, among other things, was a
social democratic regional politician and a writer. The number of books written solely by Lundberg or teaming up with other writers adds up to more than 50 with themes ranging from health to sports and fiction. His writings included the four-volume ''Dansk Fodbold''; a chronicle of Danish football from 1939 to 1989, published for the 100th anniversary of the
Danish Football Association.
In the last years of his life, Lundberg suffered from
Alzheimer's disease.
References
External links
Danish national football team profileDanish national handball team profil*
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1920 births
2002 deaths
Danish men's footballers
Denmark international footballers
Footballers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Footballers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Olympic footballers of Denmark
Olympic bronze medalists for Denmark
Danish male handball players
Danish men's basketball players
Danish male novelists
Olympic medalists in football
20th-century Danish novelists
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Association football forwards
20th-century Danish male writers
20th-century Danish journalists
Burials at Hellerup Cemetery