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

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, 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

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and

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. 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 profile

Danish national handball team profil
* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lundberg, Knud 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