Sixten Jernberg
Sixten Jernberg Edy ( born February 6, 1929 in Lima, Kopparbergs Lan, today part of Malung- halls; † July 14, 2012 in Mora, Dalarna County ) was a Swedish cross-country skier.
Life
Sixten Jernberg was originally trained as a blacksmith. After working as a blacksmith, he moved to the occupation of woodman, since this offered him more time for training. Which is also derived from Dalarna skiers Nils Karlsson Emulating, the first successes in the long run presented during his time in the military service in 1951. After the poor performance of the Swedish cross-country team at the Olympic Winter Games in Oslo in 1952 with only a bronze medal in the relay, the cross-country team was rejuvenated and Jernberg came to train. In 1954, he won the Holmenkollen Ski Festival, the race over 15 km. Three years later, he advanced with a cross-country event in Podrewskow, near Moscow, in the world's elite as he could the entire Soviet elite cross-country skiers, including Vladimir Kuzin conquer.
Throughout his career, the specialist for long distances won 1954-1964 four gold medals, three silver and two bronze medals at the Olympic Games, for which he also received also world championship medals. He also won four times at another World Championships and took also two third places. 1955 and 1960 he won the Vasaloppet.
The 1.77 m wide and 72 kg redheaded Jernberg trained as a player always alone 350 days a year, between one and four hours per day. In training, he completed about 2500 kilometers per winter. Until his resignation in November 1964, he had covered about 30,000 km on skis. His record rate of 134 victories in 363 national and international competitions the years 1952 to 1964 (only 37 times he did not come in the top six ) could be surpassed in 1992 by the Soviet- Russian cross-country skier Raisa Smetanina.
For his achievements, he was honored in 1956 with the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal - 1960 and with the Holmenkollen medal. Even as a player he put as his model Nils Karlsson I vilda spår (1960; German about " In the wild tracks" ) an autobiography before. In 1965 the IOC awarded him the Mohammed Taher Trophy for his contribution to cross-country skiing.
Short term Jernberg occurred after his retirement from cross-country skiing as a biathlete in appearance. As a coach, he was responsible for the Swedish team at the 1968 Olympic Games in Grenoble. He also sat down significantly promote the establishment of sports schools in Sweden. Prior to the 1972 Olympics in Sapporo Jernberg had been invited in winter 1969/70 by the Japanese Self-Defense Forces to propose appropriate routes and environment facilities for biathlon track.
Jernberg built later in Lima, a leisure village and a fish farm. Politically, he was active in the Swedish Centerpartiet ( " Centre Party "), which came up with a green profile.
Sixten Jernberg lived in Lima, which was incorporated in 1971 after Malung, giving him the nickname " Flash of Lima " brought to his playing days. He was married and the father of three sons since 1956. After a long illness he died of cancer in a hospital in Mora.
The pole vaulter Ingemar Jernberg, Olympian 1992 and 1996, was his nephew.