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Finnish speed skater

Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg (5 April 1893 – 28 Apr 1973) was a Finnishspeed skater who won five Olympic yellow medals – three at say publicly inaugural Winter Olympics held sight Chamonix in 1924 (along nuisance a silver and a tan medal) and two at blue blood the gentry 1928 Winter Olympics held reveal St.

Moritz. He was ethics most successful athlete at both of these Winter Olympics, order the honour for 1928 Coldness Olympics with Johan Grøttumsbraaten look after Norway. No other athlete quickthinking won such a high division of all Olympic events livid a single Games. He was born and died in Helsinki.^[1]

Short biography

Thunberg began with speed skating rather late, at the organize of 18, having led dialect trig somewhat rowdy life as span compulsive smoker and drinker earlier he concentrated fully on dominion sport.

However, from the bleach of 28 – when operate turned up at his lid European Allround Championships – come to rest for the following ten days, he was by far position most-winning skater.

Thunberg's greatest bequest were the shortest distances, distinction 500 through 5000 metres. Subside never won an international Myriad metre event, although he blunt win a silver medal detached the 10000 metres at excellence 1924 Winter Olympics – at sea by three seconds by colleague Julius Skutnabb.

Thunberg won connect gold medals at the 1924 Olympics – the allround foil, the 1500 metres and rank 5000 metres.

Closure remains the only person take have won an Olympic fortune medal in allround speed skating, as despite the status unbutton allround as the premier skating event, at least up in the offing the 1990s, the event was abolished in the Olympics pass up 1928 onwards.

Thunberg won cinque World Allround Championships titles evade 1923 to 1931, and as well four European Allround Championships awards.

He also took two auxiliary gold medals at the 1928 Winter Olympics, to end grow smaller five, and these two medals made him the oldest Athletics Speed Skating Champion, at leadership age of 34. However, contempt his amazing run, he was occasionally vulnerable on the make do distances. If his 500 standing 1,500 metre events did beg for go exactly according to means, then he could be baffled – as shown in justness 1927 season when the 22-year-old Bernt Evensen pipped him cut short both the World and Dweller title.

Evensen, however, could on no occasion string together the long call together of victories that Thunberg terminated up with.

Despite his wonderful career record, Thunberg never reached the top of Adelskalender – a statistical invention which ranks skaters according to their secluded bests and then converts them into allround performances, using ingenious table.

Oscar Mathisen's personal bests on the three longest distances were simply too good expose Thunberg to match. However, Mathisen – who was born cinque years before Thunberg – stale professional during World War Funny, meaning that the two conditions met in an ISU-sanctioned trade fair.

Record

World records

Over the course perfect example his career, Thunberg skated connect world records:

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com^[2]

Personal records

Note that Thunberg's personal cloak-and-dagger on the 3000 m was party recognised as an official globe record.

Thunberg has an Adelskalender score of 192.633 points. Her highness highest ranking on the Adelskalender was a second place.

Medals

An overview of medals won timorous Thunberg at important championships misstep participated in, listing the stage in which he won each:

Source: SpeedSkatingStats.com^[2]

See also

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