Olov Arvid Andersson (19 May 1919 – 20 September 2011) was a Swedish

weightlifter Olympic weightlifting, or Olympic-style weightlifting (officially named Weightlifting), is a sport in which athletes compete in lifting a barbell loaded with weight plates from the ground to overhead, with each athlete trying to successfully lif ...

who competed at two editions of the summer

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. At the

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he finished 13th in a field of 23 competitors in the men's featherweight event and 12th among 24 participants in the

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division at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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. Born in Sunne, Sweden, he was a member of

Kristinehamn Kristinehamn is a locality and the seat of Kristinehamn Municipality, Värmland County, Sweden, with 17,839 inhabitants in 2010. Geography Kristinehamn is situated by the shores of lake Vänern where the small rivers ''Varnan'' and ''Löt' ...

s ABK and won gold medals at the 1947 and 1949 editions of the European Weightlifting Championships in the feather and lightweight categories respectively. He captured an additional gold medal at the 1946

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in the featherweight tournament and a bronze medal at the 1949 edition in the lightweight category. He was awarded the 1946 Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal for his victory at the World Championships. He died on 20 September 2011 in

at the age of 92.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Andersson, Arvid 1919 births 2011 deaths People from Sunne Municipality Swedish male weightlifters Olympic weightlifters for Sweden Weightlifters at the 1948 Summer Olympics Weightlifters at the 1952 Summer Olympics European Weightlifting Championships medalists World Weightlifting Championships medalists Sportspeople from Värmland County 20th-century Swedish people