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In 1956, Fredriksson was awarded the Mohammed Taher Trophy by the IOC, for his contributions to the sport of canoeing.
Results
| Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1948 Summer Olympics | Canoe Sprint (Canoeing) | SWE | Gert Fredriksson | ||
| Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 1 | Gold | |||
| Kayak Singles, 10,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 1 | Gold | |||
| 1952 Summer Olympics | Canoe Sprint (Canoeing) | SWE | Gert Fredriksson | ||
| Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 1 | Gold | |||
| Kayak Singles, 10,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 2 | Silver | |||
| 1956 Summer Olympics | Canoe Sprint (Canoeing) | SWE | Gert Fredriksson | ||
| Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 1 | Gold | |||
| Kayak Singles, 10,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 1 | Gold | |||
| 1960 Summer Olympics | Canoe Sprint (Canoeing) | SWE | Gert Fredriksson | ||
| Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | 3 | Bronze | |||
| Kayak Doubles, 1,000 metres, Men(Olympic) | Sven-Olov Sjödelius | 1 | Gold | ||
| Kayak Relay, 4 × 500 metres, Men(Olympic) | Sweden | 3 h2 r3/4 |
List mentions
- Listed in Olympians Who Won a Medal at the Canoe Sprint World Championships (7–2–2 1948 London gold: K1 500 m and K1 4×500 m; 1950 København gold: K1 1000 m and K1 4×500 m, silver: K1 10000 m; 1954 Mâcon gold: K1 500 m, K1 1000 m, and K1 4×500 m; 1958 Praha silver: K1 500 m, bronze: K1 1000 m and K1 4×500 m)
- Listed in Olympians Who Were Awarded the Mohammed Taher Trophy (1956)
- Listed in Olympic Order Recipients (1982 (Bronze))
- Listed in Sprint Canoers who successfully defended their Olympic title in the same event in back-to-back Games (Kayak Singles, 1,000 metres, Men: London 1948/Helsinki 1952/Melbourne 1956)
- Listed in Sprint Canoers who won more than one Olympic title in the same event in non-consecutive Games (Kayak Singles, 10,000 metres, Men: London 1948, followed by Melbourne 1956)
Who was Gert Fredriksson?
Gert FridolfFredriksson was a Swedishsprintcanoer who competed from 1942 to 1964.
At the 1964 SummerOlympics in Tokyo, Fredriksson was head coach of the Swedish team.
He was the most successful male canoeist ever, havinggainedmedals in a succession of Swedish, Nordic, World and Olympicchampionships from 1942 - 1960. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won eight medals including six golds (1948: K-1 1000 m, K-1 10000 m; 1952: K-1 1000 m, 1956: K-1 1000 m, K-1 10000 m; 1960: K-2 1000 m), one silver (1952: K-1 10000 m), and one bronze (K-1 1000 m).
At the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Fredriksson was head coach of the Swedish team. Before him are Rune Larsson (1924), Olle Anderberg (1919), Bengt Ekerot (1920), David Lagercrantz (1962), Sven Thofelt (1904), and Eivar Widlund (1905). Before him are Michèle Arnaud, Laila Schou Nilsen, Roman Vlad, Polina Gelman, Olle Anderberg, and Gottfried Dienst.
After him are Émile Champion, Fred Alderman, Armas Taipale, Wyndham Halswelle, Ivan Gubijan, and Bruno Müller.
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Among people born in 1919, Gert Fredriksson ranks 204. After him are Karl H.
Pribram, Vladimír Vašíček, Fazlur Rahman Malik, Veikko Huhtanen, Mohammad Yunus Khalis, and Margot Hielscher. After him are John Mikaelsson (1913), Nils Engdahl (1898), Lars Hall (1927), Janne Lundblad (1887), Tore Sjöstrand (1921), and Johan Jarlén (1880).
Swedish born Athletes
Go to all RankingsWith eight medals (six gold, one silver, one bronze) between 1948 and 1960, Sweden’s Gert Fredriksson is the most successful canoeist in Olympic history.
Fredrikssonremains the most successfulSwede at the Olympics, winning six gold medals at four Olympics.
He also won seven gold medals at the WorldChampionships and 71 medals in the Swedish championships.
Fredriksson was awarded the SvenskaDagbladet Gold Medal in 1949. After him are Thomas Wassberg (1956), Sigvard Ericsson (1930), Ernst Josephson (1851), Sara Lidman (1923), Sven Axbom (1926), and John Mikaelsson (1913).
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Among athletes born in Sweden, Gert Fredriksson ranks 27.
He is one of only 13 Olympians to have won gold medals at four or more consecutive Olympic Games. Before him are Desmond Dekker, Mirko Marjanović, André Schwarz-Bart, Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Ted Schroeder, and Akira Ifukube. In 1956 he was awarded the MohammadTahertrophy by the InternationalOlympicCommittee as the number one sportsman in the world, the only canoeist to be presented with this trophy.
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- Nov 21, 1919
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- Jul 5, 2006
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Gert Fredriksson
Gert Fridolf Fredriksson (21 November 1919 – 5 July 2006) was a Swedish sprint canoeist.
After him are Kazimierz Górski, Sven Axbom, Georgios Rallis, Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, Kent Andersson, and Teresa Ciepły.
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Among people born in Sweden, Gert Fredriksson ranks 625 out of 1,879.
Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won eightmedalsincluding six golds, one silver, and one bronze. Read more on Wikipedia
His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia. He was at his best in the K1-1,000 metres, winning a gold medal at three successive Games (1948-1956) and in the K1-10,000 metres, in which he won two gold medals (1948, 1956) and a silver (1952).
Gert Fredriksson is the 528th most popular athlete (down from 260th in 2024), the 625th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 522nd in 2019) and the 27th most popular Swedish Athlete.
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Among ATHLETES
Among athletes, Gert Fredriksson ranks 528 out of 6,025.
Before him are Monika Zehrt, Hiroki Ito, Roald Larsen, Percy Hodge, Sven Thofelt, and Robert Liottel. Before him are Henry Eriksson (1920), Alfred Swahn (1879), Gustaf Söderström (1865), Kjell Bäckman (1934), Rune Larsson (1924), and Sven Thofelt (1904). Between 1942 and his retirement in 1964, Fredriksson won 71 national championships.
Among people deceased in 2006, Gert Fredriksson ranks 218.