Sigurd Wathne
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 12 February 1898 | ||
Place of birth | Copenhagen, Denmark | ||
Date of death | 26 March 1942 | (aged 44)||
Place of death | Swansea, Wales | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
SK Brann | |||
National team | |||
Norway | 14 | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Norwegian football goalkeeper, playing for the club SK Brann. He was born in Copenhagen. He was on the Norway national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920;[1] they reached the quarter finals.[2] He was capped 14 times for Norway.[3]
A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during World War II he sailed with , which was bombed by German aircraft on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in Swansea six days later.[4][5] He was buried at Danygraig Cemetery, Swansea.[6]
References[]
- ^ "Sigurd Wathne". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
- ^ "Sigurd Wathne". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ Søfting, Thomas (21 January 2012). "All-time national team players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
- ^ Ording, Arne; Johnson, Gudrun; Garder, Johan (1951). "Wathne, Sigurd". Våre falne 1939-1945 (in Norwegian). Vol. 4. Oslo: The State of Norway. p. 510. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
- ^ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7514998/SIGURD%20WATHNE/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record.
External links[]
- Sigurd Wathne at Norway Football Association (in Norwegian)
- Sigurd Wathne at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1898 births
- 1942 deaths
- Sportspeople from Copenhagen
- Norwegian footballers
- Norway international footballers
- Footballers at the 1920 Summer Olympics
- Olympic footballers of Norway
- Nortraship people
- Norwegian civilians killed in World War II
- Deaths by airstrike during World War II
- Association football goalkeepers
- Norwegian football goalkeeper stubs