William Petersson Explained

Birth Date:6 October 1895
Birth Place:Sandby, Sweden
Death Date:10 May 1965 (aged 69)
Death Place:Kalmar, Sweden
Sport:Athletics
Club:Kalmar IS
Event:100 m, long jump
Pb:100 m – 11.0 (1918)
LJ – 7.39 m (1924)

Reinhold William Eugen Petersson (later Björneman, 6 October 1895 – 10 May 1965) was a Swedish athlete.[1] He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the long jump and 4 × 100 m relay and won a gold and a bronze medal, respectively.[2] Petersson won four Swedish long jump titles, in 1918–20 and 1924.[3]

In 1918 Petersson graduated from the Schartaus institute of trade and then worked in the banking sector in Germany, France and Britain. In 1928 he became assistant director and then Vice President of J. G. Schwartz in Norrköping. In 1938 he changed to a position of assistant director and then vice president at margarine factories in Stockholm, and since 1941 he headed slaughterhouses in Malmö. In 1940 he represented Sweden at a special trade mission in London.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: William Petersson . Olympedia . 15 July 2021.
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20200417163305/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/pe/william-petersson-1.html William Petersson
  3. http://sok.se/idrottare/idrottare/w/william-pettersson.html William Petersson
  4. http://svenskuppslagsbok.se/scans/band_04/0029_0030-0015.jpg Svensk uppslagsbok, andra upplagan 1947