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Ragnar Olson

Carl Adolf Ragnar Olson was a Swedish horse rider who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the individual dressage competition with his horse Günstling, and a silver medal as part of the Swedish dressage team.

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Ragnar Olson
Personal information
Born10 August 1880
Kristianstad, Sweden
Died10 July 1955 (aged 74)
Bromma, Sweden
Sport
SportEquestrian
ClubStockholms FRK
Medal record
Representing  Sweden
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1928 Amsterdam team dressage
Bronze medal – third place 1928 Amsterdam individual dressage

Carl Adolf Ragnar Olson (10 August 1880 – 10 July 1955) was a Swedish horse rider who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the individual dressage competition with his horse Günstling, and a silver medal as part of the Swedish dressage team.1

Olson lived in Hässleholm in southern Sweden. He became famous for housing, during the winter of 1918–1919, the exiled German army chief Erich Ludendorff, after the German World War I capitulation in 1918.23

References

References

  1. Ragnar Olson. sports-reference.com
  2. Rydén, Daniel (2014). 101 Historiska möten [101 Historic meetings] (in Swedish). Historiska Media. p. 114. ISBN 9789175451732.
  3. Ragnar Olson. Swedish Olympic Committee
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