Alf Petersson
Personal information | |||||||||||
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Born | 5 February 1933 Helsingborg, Sweden | (age 89)||||||||||
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||
Weight | 80 kg (180 lb) | ||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | ||||||||||
Event(s) | 100–800 m, long jump | ||||||||||
Club | IFK Helsingborg | ||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||
Personal best(s) | 100 m – 11.0 200 m – 22.0 400 m – 47.0 (1958) 800 m – 1:50.6 LJ – 7.31 m[1][2] | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Alf Roland Petersson (born 5 February 1933) is a retired Swedish sprinter.
Athletic career[]
He competed in the 400 m and 4 × 400 m relay at the 1960 Summer Olympics, but failed to reach the finals. He finished fifth and third in these events at the 1958 European Athletics Championships.[1][3]
Petersson started as a long jumper with a personal best of 7.31 m. He then changed to 100–800 m running events, winning the national 400 m title in 1955, 1957–58 and 1960 and setting a national record in 1958 over this distance.[2]
References[]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Alf Petersson. |
- ^ a b Alf Petersson. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b Alf Petersson 1933-02-05. storagrabbar.se
- ^ Alf Petersson. Swedish Olympic Committee.
Categories:
- 1933 births
- Living people
- Swedish male sprinters
- Olympic athletes of Sweden
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Swedish athletics biography stubs