Nils Östensson
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Nils Östensson
Nils Östensson (April 29, 1918, Transtrand, Dalarna – July 24, 1949) was a former Swedish cross country skier who competed in the 1940s. He won the 4 x 10 km gold and the 18 km silver at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.
Östensson also won the 18 km and 50 km events at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1949.
He died in a motorcycle accident on July 24, 1949.
External links
Media related to Nils Östensson at Wikimedia Commons
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- 1936:
Sulo Nurmela, Klaes Karppinen, Matti Lähde, Kalle Jalkanen (FIN)
- 1948:
Nils Östensson, Nils Täpp, Gunnar Eriksson, Martin Lundström (SWE)
- 1952:
Heikki Hasu, Paavo Lonkila, Urpo Korhonen, Tapio Mäkelä (FIN)
- 1956:
Fyodor Terentyev, Pavel Kolchin, Nikolay Anikin, Vladimir Kuzin (URS)
- 1960:
Toimi Alatalo, Eero Mäntyranta, Väinö Huhtala, Veikko Hakulinen (FIN)
- 1964:
Karl-Åke Asph, Sixten Jernberg, Janne Stefansson, Assar Rönnlund (SWE)
- 1968:
Odd Martinsen, Pål Tyldum, Harald Grønningen, Ole Ellefsæter (NOR)
- 1972:
Vladimir Voronkov, Yuri Skobov, Fyodor Simashev, Vyacheslav Vedenin (URS)
- 1976:
Matti Pitkänen, Juha Mieto, Pertti Teurajärvi, Arto Koivisto (FIN)
- 1980:
Vasily Rochev, Nikolay Bazhukov, Yevgeny Belyayev, Nikolay Zimyatov (URS)
- 1984:
Thomas Wassberg, Benny Kohlberg, Jan Ottosson, Gunde Svan (SWE)
- 1988:
Jan Ottosson, Thomas Wassberg, Gunde Svan, Torgny Mogren (SWE)
- 1992:
Terje Langli, Vegard Ulvang, Kristen Skjeldal, Bjørn Dæhlie (NOR)
- 1994:
Maurilio De Zolt, Marco Albarello, Giorgio Vanzetta, Silvio Fauner (ITA)
- 1998:
Sture Sivertsen, Erling Jevne, Bjørn Dæhlie, Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
- 2002:
Anders Aukland, Frode Estil, Kristen Skjeldal, Thomas Alsgaard (NOR)
- 2006:
Fulvio Valbusa, Giorgio Di Centa, Pietro Piller Cottrer, Cristian Zorzi (ITA)
- 2010:
Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Anders Södergren, Marcus Hellner (SWE)
- 2014:
Lars Nelson, Daniel Richardsson, Johan Olsson, Marcus Hellner (SWE)
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