Audun Boysen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Audun Boysen

athletics competitor

Date of Birth: 10-May-1929

Place of Birth: Bjarkøy, Northern Norway, Norway

Date of Death: 02-Mar-2000

Profession: athletics competitor, middle-distance runner

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Audun Boysen

  • Audun Boysen (10 May 1929 – 2 March 2000) was a Norwegian middle distance runner.
  • Born in Bjarkøy and raised in Rissa, he first represented Rissa IL and later IK Tjalve in Oslo. Boysen was a prominent 800 metre runner in the 1950s, and he won a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, a silver medal at the 1958 European Championships and another bronze at the 1954 European Championships.
  • He set three world records over 1,000 metres, the last being 2:19.0 in 1955. The same year he ran 800 metres in 1:45.9, setting a new Norwegian record.
  • Incidentally, the man who beat him in that race, Belgian Roger Moens, ran a world record time, with Boysen also under the old world record.
  • That Norwegian record stood for 37 years until 3 July 1992 when it was broken by Atle Douglas (1:45.15) and Vebjørn Rodal (1:45.33).
  • Rodal became Olympic champion four years later.

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