Gösta Brännström Explained

Birth Date:6 October 1926
Birth Place:Skellefteå, Sweden
Death Date:7 March 1997 (aged 70)
Death Place:Skellefteå, Sweden
Sport:Athletics
Event:400 m
Club:Skellefteå AIK
Pb:400 m – 47.4 (1953)
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Gösta Martin Brännström (6 October 1926 – 7 March 1997) was a Swedish sprinter who won a bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay at the 1950 European Athletics Championships, together with Tage Ekfeldt, Rune Larsson and Lars-Erik Wolfbrandt. They failed to reach the final at the 1952 Summer Olympics, and finished fourth at the 1954 European Athletics Championships.

Brännström won the national 400 m title in 1951, 1953 and 1956. In 1953 he set national records in the 300 m at 34.0 and in the 400 m at 47.4.