Gosta RUNO

Sweden
Sweden
Modern PentathlonModern Pentathlon
Olympic Medals
1B
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesAntwerp 1920
Year of Birth1896

Biography

Gösta Runö was bronze medalist in the Modern Pentathlon at Antwerpen in 1920 after winning the swimming and running events. Runö was a Swedish military pilot with the rank of lieutenant. Only two years after the Olympics he died when he crashed his Phönix D III plane on the way from Malmen Airbase to Lilla Ånestad, 3 km south of Linköping. His father placed a small memorial stone at the crash site. After the stone was damaged in 1986 it was restored and is now kept at the Air Force Museum.

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