Pär Arvidsson
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Full name | Pär Arvidsson | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname(s) | Pära | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Finspång, Sweden |
February 27, 1960 |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | butterfly | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pär Arvidsson (born February 27, 1960 in Finspång) was a butterfly swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow,[1][2] after having set the world record in the same event a couple of months earlier in Austin, Texas. He held the record until April 1981.[3]
Between 1976 and 1983 he became Swedish champion 22 times.
He held the Swedish record in the 200 butterfly until 2008.
After Graduating from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in economics he attended and graduated from Harvard Business School.
Personal bests
Long course (50 m)
Event | Time |
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Date | Meet | Location | Ref |
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100 m butterfly | 54.15 | 11 Apr 1980 | - | Austin, TX, United States | ||
200 m butterfly | 2:00.42 | 18 Aug 1979 | US Summer Nationals | Fort Lauderdale, FL, United States |
Legend: WR – World record; ER – European record; NR – Swedish record;
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
Records not set in finals: h – heat; sf – semifinal; r – relay 1st leg; rh – relay heat 1st leg; b – B final; † – en route to final mark; tt – time trial
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Preceded by | Men's 100-metre butterfly world record-holder (long course) April 11, 1980 – April 3, 1981 |
Succeeded by William Paulus |
References
- ↑ http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ar/par-arvidsson-1.html at Sports Reference
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=8_8sAAAAIBAJ&sjid=es0FAAAAIBAJ&pg=1322,1877276&dq=p%C3%A4r+arvidsson+1980+butterfly&hl=en
- ↑ https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=MCwdAAAAIBAJ&sjid=SKUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=4086,986070
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- Olympic swimmers of Sweden
- Living people
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
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- Harvard Business School alumni
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- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics