Olle Laessker (2 April 1922 – 19 September 1992) was a

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track and field athlete who competed in long jump and

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ing events. He had his best achievements at the

1946 European Athletics Championships The 3rd European Athletics Championships were held from 22 August to 25 August 1946 in the Bislett Stadion in Oslo, Norway. For the first time it was a combined event for men and women, and for the first time a city in Scandinavia hosted the champ ...

in Oslo, where he won the long jump by a margin of two centimeters, then teamed up with Stig Danielsson, Inge Nilsson and

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to win a second gold for Sweden in the

4 × 100 metres relay The 4 × 100 metres relay or sprint relay is an athletics track event run in lanes over one lap of the track with four runners completing 100 metres each. The first runners must begin in the same stagger as for the individu ...

. He was Sweden's first European medallist in the long jump. Laessker was awarded the

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for his achievements, listed as the 116th recipient in the sport of athletics.Medlemmar
. Storagrabbar. Retrieved on 2014-10-16. He was the Swedish long jump champion in 1946 and 1947. Nordisk familjeboks sportlexikon. Stockholm: Nordisk Familjeboks Förlags AB. 1938–1949

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Laessker, Olle 1922 births 1992 deaths Swedish male long jumpers Swedish male sprinters European Athletics Championships medalists 20th-century Swedish people