Interview with Hugo Wieslander

Karl Hugo Wieslander (11 June 1889 – 24 May 1976) was a Swedish athlete. He set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in Gothenburg in 1911 with a score of 5516 points. The following year he finished second in the decathlon at the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm, 688 points behind Jim Thorpe.

Here you can find an interview with Hugo Wieslander, it's in Swedish but with some help from the translation site Deepl (DeepL Translate: The world's most accurate translator) you should be able to read it:

Hugo Wieslander – guldmedaljen som försvann och den fenomenale amerikanen — SCIF

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