Björn Ferm
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Born | Jönköping, Sweden | 10 August 1944|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Modern pentathlon, fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | A6 IF, Jönköping | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Björn Bernt Ewald Ferm (born 10 August 1944) is a Swedish modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1968 and 1972 Summer Olympics and won an individual gold medal in 1968.[1] In 1968, his team finished third but was stripped of the bronze medal after one member failed a drug test (for alcohol).[2]
Ferm won two individual bronze medals at world championships, in 1967 and 1969. Nationally he collected 12 titles that included one in épée fencing and 11 in modern pentathlon, five individual and six with a team. After retiring from competitions he became an Asia-based businessman, and as of 2009 headed of a company exporting ink cartridges and toners.[3]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Björn Ferm.
- ^ Björn Ferm. sports-reference.com
- ^ "Modern Pentathlon at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Team". Sports Reference. Retrieved 6 April 2014.
- ^ Björn Ferm. Swedish Olympic Committee
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Swedish modern pentathletes
- Swedish sportsmen
- Swedish male fencers
- Swedish épée fencers
- Olympic modern pentathletes of Sweden
- Modern pentathletes at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Modern pentathletes at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Male modern pentathletes
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Olympic medalists in modern pentathlon
- Competitors stripped of Olympic medals
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs
- European modern pentathlon biography stubs
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- World Modern Pentathlon Championships medalists
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics