Klas Ivar Vilhelm Lestander (18 April 1931 – 13 January 2023) was a Swedish biathlete who won a gold medal at the 1960 Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley...
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Västerbotten (1:3,832) Klas Lestander (1931–2023), Swedish biathlete Ove Lestander (born 1941), Swedish cross country skier Lestander surname distribution...
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four shooting stations at ranges from 100 to 250 m (330 to 820 ft). Klas Lestander from Sweden became the first Olympic champion, Antti Tyrväinen from...
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Robbie Knievel, 60, American daredevil and stuntman, pancreatic cancer. Klas Lestander, 91, Swedish biathlete, Olympic champion (1960). Mao Zhi, 90, Chinese...
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popular.[citation needed] In the 1960 Winter Olympics at Squaw Valley, Klas Lestander from Sweden won the first olympic biathlon event using the Carl Gustaf...
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and recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature (d. 2015) April 18 – Klas Lestander, Swedish biathlete and Olympic champion (d. 2023) April 19 – Kobie Coetsee...
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position, the last standing. Each miss of the target cost two minutes. Klas Lestander became the first Olympic biathlon champion on the back of a perfect...
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an Olympic event, but the IOC considers it an event within biathlon. Klas Lestander of Sweden won the first modern biathlon Olympic gold medal. Nine nations...
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1 Klas Lestander, Kalevi Huuskonen, Olav Jordet, Jon Istad, Viktor Mamatov, Magnar Solberg, Alexander Tikhonov...
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Union Aleksandr Privalov Valentin Pshenitsyn Dmitri Sokolov Sweden Klas Lestander Tage Lundin Stig Andersson 1962 Soviet Union Vladimir Melanin Valentin...
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