Bertil Haase, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Bertil Haase

modern pentathlete

Date of Birth: 05-Jun-1923

Place of Birth: Uppsala, Uppsala County, Sweden

Date of Death: 07-Jul-2014

Profession: alpine skier, athletics competitor, biathlete, pentathlete

Nationality: Sweden

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


Show Famous Birthdays Today, Sweden

👉 Worldwide Celebrity Birthdays Today

About Bertil Haase

  • Bertil Robert Herman Haase Vidarsson (5 June 1923 – 7 July 2014) was a Swedish pentathlete who competed at both Winter and Summer Olympics.Hasse joined the Swedish Army as a volunteer and attended military school as a furir (private first class).
  • He later retired from the army as a kapten.
  • Together with Claes Egnell, Willie Grut and Gustaf Lindh he competed in the 1948 Winter Olympics in the winter pentathlon, which was contested as a demonstration event.
  • As an excellent skier, he won both the downhill and the 10 km cross country disciplines, but lagged behind in shooting, fencing and horse riding.
  • He finished third overall and won the bronze medal.
  • Fellow countrymen Lindh and Grut took the first and second place respectively.Since the winter pentathlon would have no other appearances at the Olympic Games, Haase turned to the modern pentathlon.
  • He was selected for the 1956 Summer Olympics and finished 17th individually.
  • In the team contest Sweden was the favourite as it included Björn Thofelt and the individual Olympic champion Lars Hall.
  • In the first event, horse riding, Thofelt had drawn the lot for a very peculiar horse and eventually suffered from a concussion, after he fell off twice and had to withdraw.
  • Consequently, the Swedish team was not ranked.Hasse was also successful at the world championships.
  • He won the team title in 1950, with Lars Hall and Thor Henning, and placed third in 1954, with Ã…ke Julin and Thofelt.
  • Haase's home club was Studenternas Idrottsförening Stockholm.
  • He completed an engineering study at the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm with a focus on metallurgical and then worked in the metallurgical industry in Fagersta, where he resided until his death in July 2014.

Read more at Wikipedia

See Also