Ragnhild Hveger
File:Ragnhild Hveger 1935.jpg
Ragnhild Hveger in 1935
|
||||||||||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | 10 December 1920 Nyborg, Denmark |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 1 December 2011 (aged 90) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Helsingør Svømmeklub DKG, København |
|||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Ragnhild Tove Hveger (later Andersen, 10 December 1920 – 1 December 2011)[1] was a swimmer from Denmark, who won the silver medal in the women's 400 m freestyle at the 1936 Summer Olympics.[2]
From 1936 to 1943 she set 44 world records, and at one time she held 19 world records in different distances and disciplines.[3] In 1937 she won three gold medals at the world championships. Unfortunately for her, the Olympic Games were not held in 1940 or 1944.
Daughter of a Nazi, sister of an east front volunteer, married to a German officer, she became very unpopular after the war, and was barred from the Danish team for the 1948 Olympics.[4] She competed at the 1952 Olympics and finished fourth in the 4 × 100 m and fifth in the 400 m freestyle events.[2] Hveger retired in 1954 after ending fifth in the 100 m freestyle at the European Championships.[5]
In 1966 she was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame,[3] and 30 years later declared sportswoman of the century by Danmarks Idræts-Forbund.
See also
- World record progression 200 metres freestyle
- World record progression 400 metres freestyle
- World record progression 800 metres freestyle
- World record progression 1500 metres freestyle
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Ragnhild Hveger sports-reference.com
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 RAGNHILD HVEGER (DEN). ISHOF
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
- ↑ Ragnhild HVEGER. the-sports.org
External links
![]() |
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ragnhild Hveger. |
- Pat Besford, Encyclopaedia of Swimming (London: St. Martin's Press, 1971).
- David Wallechinsky and Jaime Loucky, The Complete Book of the Olympics (London: Aurum, 2008).
Records | ||
---|---|---|
Preceded by | Women's 200 metres freestyle world record holder (long course) 11 September 1938 – 25 February 1956 |
Succeeded by Dawn Fraser |
Preceded by | Women's 400 metres freestyle world record holder (long course) 10 February 1937 – 25 August 1956 |
Succeeded by Lorraine Crapp |
Preceded by | Women's 800 metres freestyle world record holder (long course) 3 July 1936 – 28 June 1953 |
Succeeded by Valerie Gyenge |
Preceded by | Women's 1500 metres freestyle world record holder (long course) 3 July 1938 – 23 July 1955 |
Succeeded by Lenie de Nijs |
Preceded by | Women's 200 metres backstroke world record holder (long course) 14 February 1937 – 17 April 1938 |
Succeeded by Cor Kint |
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- Pages with broken file links
- Pages using Infobox sportsperson with module2 parameter
- Pages using infobox swimmer with show-medals enabled
- Commons category link is defined as the pagename
- 1920 births
- 2011 deaths
- Danish swimmers
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Female backstroke swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers of Denmark
- Olympic silver medalists for Denmark
- Former world record holders in swimming
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- International Swimming Hall of Fame inductees
- European swimming biography stubs
- Danish sportspeople stubs
- Danish Olympic medalist stubs
- Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics