Lars Bertil Glassér (4 October 1925 – 15 January 1999) was a
Swedish sprint canoeist
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who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the
1952 Summer Olympics
The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland.
After Japan declared in ...
in
Helsinki
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.
Glasser also won six medals at the
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships are an international event in canoe racing, one of two top-tier Summer Olympic sport events organized by the International Canoe Federation (the other being the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships). They ...
with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m:
1948
Events January
* January 1
** The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) is inaugurated.
** The current Constitutions of Constitution of Italy, Italy and of Constitution of New Jersey, New Jersey (both later subject to amendment) ...
,
1950
Events January
* January 1 – The International Police Association (IPA) – the largest police organization in the world – is formed.
* January 5 – 1950 Sverdlovsk plane crash, Sverdlovsk plane crash: ''Aeroflot'' Lisunov Li-2 ...
,
1954
Events
January
* January 3 – The Italian broadcaster RAI officially begins transmitting.
* January 7 – Georgetown–IBM experiment: The first public demonstration of a machine translation system is held in New York, at the head ...
; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that the K-1 500 m, K-1 4 x 500 m, and K-2 500 m events were part of the
International Canoe Federation
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's
1948 World Championships and not of the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...
, which was also in
London
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. The K-1 4 x 500 m event was held at the
Summer Olympics
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once at the
1960 Games in
Rome
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while the K-1 500 m and K-2 500 m have been held at every Olympics since the
1976 Games in
Montreal
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1925 births
1999 deaths
Swedish male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for Sweden
Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in canoeing
Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
20th-century Swedish sportsmen
Sportspeople from Stockholm
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