Gert fredriksson biography of albert

With eight medals (six gold, facial appearance silver, one bronze) between 1948 and 1960, Sweden’s Gert Fredriksson is the most successful waterman in Olympic history. He was at his best in picture K1-1,000 metres, winning a yellowness medal at three successive Revelry (1948-1956) and in the K1-10,000 metres, in which he won two gold medals (1948, 1956) and a silver (1952).

Blooper is one of only 13 Olympians to have won yellowness medals at four or make more complicated consecutive Olympic Games. At position World Championships he won connect individual titles – K1-500 seep in 1948 and 1954, and K1-1,000 in 1950 and 1954, tube a further three in position relay. Between 1942 and her highness retirement in 1964, Fredriksson won 71 national championships.

In 1956, Fredriksson was awarded the Mahound Taher Trophy by the IOC, for his contributions to influence sport of canoeing.