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Alvar Hägglund

Swedish cross-country skier (1913-1996)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2024
Entity authorityQ1812800 ↗
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Alvar Hägglund (1913–1996) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s. He won a silver medal in the 4 x 10 km at the 1939 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Zakopane. He also finished 6th in the 50 km event at those same games.

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“Alvar Hägglund” enters the record as swedish cross-country skier (1913-1996). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Alvar, Hägglund and Swedish can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alvar Hägglund” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.