Per-Olof Östrand

Personal information

Born

13 June 1930
Hofors, Sweden

Died

26 October 1980 (aged 50)
Skärholmen, Sweden

Sport

Swimming

Club

Hofors AIF
IF Elfsborg, Borås

Medal record

Representing Sweden
Summer Olympics
	1952 Helsinki	400 m freestyle
European Championships
	1947 Monte Carlo	4×200 m freestyle
	1950 Vienna	4×200 m freestyle
	1954 Turin	400 m freestyle

Per-Olof Östrand (13 June 1930 – 26 October 1980) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Olympics in six 200–1500 m freestyle events in total, and won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle in 1952. His 4 × 200 m relay teams finished in fourth place in 1948 and 1952;^[1] they won gold medals at the European championships in 1947 and 1954.^[2]

Nationally Östrand won 15 swimming titles between 1947 and 1955, and competed in water polo for his club Hofors AIF.^[3]

References

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↑ Per-Olof Östrand. Swedish Olympic Committee

European Champions in Men's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay

1926: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
1927: Germany (Heitmann, Rademacher, Berges, Heinrich)
1931: Hungary (Wanié, Szabados, Székely, Bárány)
1934: Hungary (Gróf, Maróthy, Csik, Lengyel)
1938: Germany (Birr, Heimlich, Freese, Plath)
1947: Sweden (Olsson, Lundén, Östrand, Johansson)
1950: Sweden (Sjunnerholm, Östrand, Johansson, Larsson)
1954: Hungary (Till, Dömötör, Kádas, Nyéki)
1958: Soviet Union (Nikolayev, Struzhanov, Luzhkovsky, Nikitin)
1962: Sweden (Rosendahl, Lindberg, Svensson, Bengtsson)
1966: Soviet Union (Ilyichov, Belits-Geiman, Pletnev, Novikov)
1970: West Germany (Lampe, Von Schilling, Meeuw, Fassnacht)
1974: West Germany (Steinbach, Lampe, Meeuw, Nocke)
1977: Soviet Union (Raskatov, Rusin, Koplyakov, Krylov)
1981: Soviet Union (Shemetov, Salnikov, Chayev, Koplyakov)
1983: West Germany (Fahrner, Schowtka, Schmidt, Gross)
1985: West Germany (Schowtka, Gross, Schadt, Fahrner)
1987: West Germany (Sitt, Henkel, Fahrner, Gross)
1989: Italy (Trevisan, Gleria, Lamberti, Battistelli)
1991: Soviet Union (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Tayanovich, Sadovyi)
1993: Russia (Lepikov, Pyshnenko, Mukin, Sadovyi)
1995: Germany (Keller, Lampe, Spanneberg, Zesner)
1997: Great Britain (Palmer, Clayton, Meadows, Salter)
1999: Germany (Keller, Pohl, Conrad, Kiedel)
2000: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari, Cercato, Brembilla)
2002: Italy (Pelliciari, Brembilla, Cappellazzo, Rosolino)
2004: Italy (Brembilla, Pelliciari, Rosolino, Magnini)
2006: Italy (Rosolino, Berbotto, Cassio, Magnini)
2008: Italy (Brembilla, Rosolino, Cassio, Magnini)
2010: Russia (Lobintsev, Izotov, Perunin, Sukhorukov)
2012: Germany (Biedermann, Colupaev, Rapp, Wallburger)
2014: Germany (Backhaus, Lebherz, Rapp, Biedermann)
2016: Netherlands (Dreesens, Brzoskowski, Stolk, Verschuren)

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