Gösta HOLMER

Competing in track and field Gösta Holmér was an all-round athlete who won ten Swedish titles in three different sports and an Olympic bronze medal. Holmér competed in the decathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Olympics, which became infamous for the disqualification of the event’s winner Jim Thorpe. After years of deliberation Thorpe was finally reinstated as the sole winner of the gold medal in 2022. Two Swedish athletes, Hugo Wieslander and Charles Lomberg were declared as joint-winners of the silver medal, with Holmér winning the bronze medal, despite finishing in fourth place. At the Stockholm Olympics Holmér also finished in eighth place in the pentathlon and competed in the qualification round in the high jump.

After World War I Holmér returned to the Olympics for the 1920 Antwerpen Games where again he finished in fourth place in the decathlon, but this time there was no controversy over the results. He also ran in the 110 metres hurdles where he was eliminated in his heat.