Sixten Jernberg
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| Medal record | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Men's cross country skiing | |||
| Olympic Games | |||
| Gold | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1960 Squaw Valley | 30 km | |
| Gold | 1964 Innsbruck | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1964 Innsbruck | 4 x 10 km | |
| Silver | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 15 km | |
| Silver | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 30 km | |
| Silver | 1960 Squaw Valley | 15 km | |
| Bronze | 1956 Cortina d'Ampezzo | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1964 Innsbruck | 15 km | |
| World Championships | |||
| Gold | 1958 Lahti | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1958 Lahti | 4 x 10 km | |
| Gold | 1962 Zakopane | 50 km | |
| Gold | 1962 Zakopane | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1954 Falun | 4 x 10 km | |
| Bronze | 1958 Lahti | 30 km | |
Edy Sixten Jernberg (born 6 February 1929, Malung Municipality, Dalarna County) is a retired Swedish cross country skier.
Through a career lasting from the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun to the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won four World Championships gold medals and nine Olympic medals. He specialised in the longer distances, with four of his eight gold medals coming in the 50 km distance, one was over 30 km and three in 4 x 10 km. He also won Vasaloppet twice. Jernberg won the 15 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1954. For his cross-country skiing successes, Jernberg was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1960 (Shared with Helmut Recknagel, Sverre Stensheim, and Tormod Knutsen.).
[edit] Olympic results
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- 1956, 15 km: 2, 30 km: 2, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 3,
- 1960, 15 km: 2, 30 km: 1, 50 km: 5, 4 x 10 km: 4,
- 1964, 15 km: 3, 30 km: 5, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 1.
[edit] World Championship results
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- 1954, 30 km: 4, 4 x 10 km: 3,
- 1958, 15 km: 4, 30 km: 3, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 1,
- 1962, 30 km: 10, 50 km: 1, 4 x 10 km: 1,
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| Olympic champions in men's 30 km cross-country skiing |
| 1956: Veikko Hakulinen | 1960: Sixten Jernberg | 1964: Eero Mäntyranta | 1968: Franco Nones | 1972: Vyacheslav Vedenin | 1976: Sergey Savelyev | 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1984: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1988: Alexey Prokourorov | 1992: Vegard Ulvang | 1994: Thomas Alsgaard | 1998: Mika Myllylä | 2002: Christian Hoffmann |
| Olympic champions in men's 50 km cross country |
| 1924: Thorleif Haug | 1928: Per Erik Hedlund | 1932: Veli Saarinen | 1936: Elis Wiklund | 1948: Nils Karlsson | 1952: Veikko Hakulinen | 1956: Sixten Jernberg | 1960: Kalevi Hämäläinen | 1964: Sixten Jernberg | 1968: Ole Ellefsæter | 1972: Pål Tyldum | 1976: Ivar Formo | 1980: Nikolay Zimyatov | 1984: Thomas Wassberg | 1988: Gunde Svan | 1992: Bjørn Dæhlie | 1994: Vladimir Smirnov | 1998: Bjørn Dæhlie | 2002: Mikhail Ivanov | 2006: Giorgio Di Centa |
| World champions in men's 50 km cross country |
| 1925: Frantisek Donth | 1926: Matti Raivio | 1927: John Lindgren | 1929: Anselm Knuutila | 1930: Sven Utterström | 1931: Ole Stensen | 1933: Veli Saarinen | 1934: Elis Wiklund | 1935: Nils-Joel Englund | 1937: Pekka Niemi | 1938: Kalle Jalkanen | 1939: Lars Bergendahl | 1950: Gunnar Eriksson | 1954: Vladimir Kuzin | 1958: Sixten Jernberg | 1962: Sixten Jernberg | 1966: Gjermund Eggen | 1970: Kalevi Oikarainen | 1974: Gerhard Grimmer | 1978: Sven-Åke Lundbäck | 1982: Thomas Wassberg | 1985: Gunde Svan | 1987: Maurilio De Zolt | 1989: Gunde Svan | 1991: Torgny Mogren | 1993: Torgny Mogren | 1995: Silvio Fauner | 1997: Mika Myllylä | 1999: Mika Myllylä | 2001: Johann Mühlegg | 2003: Martin Koukal | 2005: Frode Estil |
| Preceded by: Gunder Gundersen |
Holmenkollen medal with Helmut Recknagel, Sverre Stensheim, & Tormod Knutsen 1960 |
Succeeded by: Harald Grønningen |
