Erik Larsson (skier), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Erik Larsson (skier)

Swedish cross-country skier

Date of Birth: 20-Apr-1912

Place of Birth: Kiruna, Norrbotten County, Sweden

Date of Death: 10-Mar-1982

Profession: cross-country skier

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Erik August Larsson (12 April 1912 – 10 March 1982) was a Swedish cross-country skier who competed in the 1930s.
He won two medals at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen with a gold in the 18 km and a bronze in the 4×10 km.
The same year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.
Larsson also won a bronze in the 4×10 km relay at the 1935 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships.Larsson was born as the second youngest of six siblings in a religious Finnish-speaking family.
In 1935, he started working as a cleaner at the Kiruna iron ore mine in the summer and as a lumberjack in the winter.
In 1939, after attending a prayer meeting in Kurravaara he gave up his sport career and became a Laestadian Christian.
He was later a preacher in the Firstborn Laestadian congregation in Kiruna.
His son Lars became a preacher in Luleå, while his granddaughter Åsa Larsson was a tax lawyer and a writer of crime novels.