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Full name | Sven Helge Hamrin | ||||||||||||||
Born | Härnösand, Sweden | 30 March 1941||||||||||||||
Died | 25 January 2018 | (aged 76)||||||||||||||
Height | 176 cm (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sven Helge Hamrin (30 March 1941 – 25 January 2018) [1] was a Swedish cyclist who competed at the 1964 Olympics. He finished 50th in the individual road race and won a bronze medal in the team time trial, riding with the Fåglum brothers. The same year he won the road race at the national championships. [2] [3] [4]
In 1970 he was involved in an auto accident in Norway, as a result of which he remained in a coma for 45 days. Eventually he recovered and resumed cycling, even though one of his legs was six centimeters shorter as a result of multiple surgeries.