Knud Lundberg (14 May 1920 – 12 August 2002) was a Danish multi-talented sportsperson, who most notably won a bronze medal with the Denmark national football team at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[2] He represented the Denmark national team in football, handball and basketball, and he won the Danish national championship in all three disciplines. He played his footballing career at Akademisk Boldklub.
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| Born | 14 May 1920 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 12 August 2002 (aged 82) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 1950–1953 | Denmark 18 (74 points)[1] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Representing  Denmark
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1948 London | Team competition |
In his civil life, Lundberg studied medicine and sports. Along with his athletic career, Lundberg worked as a sports journalist, and he was the first sports editor at the Danish newspaper Dagbladet Information, a sports editor at the social democratic newspaper Aktuelt, editor of the annual Fodbold Jul are among his other editorial posts. After ending his sporting career, he, among other things, was a social democratic regional politician and a writer. The number of books written solely by Lundberg or teaming up with other writers adds up to more than 50 with themes ranging from health to sports and fiction. His writings included the four-volume Dansk Fodbold; a chronicle of Danish football from 1939 to 1989, published for the 100th anniversary of the Danish Football Association.
In the last years of his life, Lundberg suffered from Alzheimer's disease.
References
edit- ^ "Knud Lundberg". Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe (in Danish). January 2016. Archived from the original on 12 June 2020. Retrieved 12 June 2020.
- ^ "Knud Lundberg". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 October 2021.
External links
edit- Knud Lundberg national team profile at the Danish Football Association (in Danish)
- Denmark national handball team profile
- Knud Lundberg at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)
- Knud Lundberg at WorldFootball.net
- Knud Lundberg at National-Football-Teams.com