Ingemar Hedberg | |
Full Name: | Ingemar Harald Robert Hedberg |
Birth Date: | 1920 3, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Örebro, Sweden |
Death Place: | Stockholm, Sweden |
Sport: | Canoe sprint |
Club: | Brunnsvikens Kanotklubb, Stockholm |
Show-Medals: | yes |
Ingemar Harald Robert Hedberg (8 March 1920 – 19 May 2019) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Hedberg also won three gold medals at the 1950 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen, earning them in the K-1 4×500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-2 1000 m events. He died in May 2019 at the age of 99.[1]