Pär Arvidsson
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Full name | Pär Arvidsson | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Pära | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Swedish | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Finspång, Sweden | 27 February 1960||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pär Arvidsson (born 27 February 1960 in Finspång) is a former butterfly swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,[1][2] after having set the world record in the same event a couple of months earlier in Austin, Texas. He held the record until April 1981.[3]
Between 1976 and 1983 he became Swedish champion 22 times.
He held the Swedish record in the 200 butterfly until 2008.
After graduating from the University of California, Berkeley with a degree in economics he attended and graduated from Harvard Business School.
Personal bests[]
Long course (50 m)[]
Event | Time |
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Date | Meet | Location | Ref |
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100 m butterfly | 54.15 | 11 Apr 1980 | - | Austin, TX, United States | ||
200 m butterfly | 2:00.42 | 18 Aug 1979 | US Summer Nationals | Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States |
Legend: WR – World record; ER – European record; NR – Swedish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
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Categories:
- 1960 births
- Swedish male butterfly swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Sweden
- Living people
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
- World record setters in swimming
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Harvard Business School alumni
- Swedish expatriates in the United States
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists in swimming
- UC Berkeley College of Letters and Science alumni