Audun Boysen

Audun Boysen ( born May 10, 1929 in Bjarkøy; † 2 March 2000, Oslo) is a Norwegian athlete who was successful in the 1950s on the middle distance. He won three medals at Olympic Games and European Championships.

Boysen was from 1950 to 1958 ( End of career ) is constantly in the top ten of the global leaderboard over 800 m, 1955 and 1956, even in second place. He first started I.L. for the club Rissa and then moved on to IK Tjalve in Oslo. He won an Olympic bronze medal over 800 m, and one silver and one bronze medal at the European Championships.

Boysen won nine consecutive times, the Norwegian Championship:

About the non-Olympic 1000 - meter distance he scored three world records:

  • 2:20,4 min on 17 September 1953 in Oslo
  • 2:19,5 min on 28 August 1954 in Gävle
  • 2:19,0 min on August 30, 1955 in Gothenburg

With a time of 1:45,9 min over 800 m Boysen was for 37 years the owner of the Norwegian national record. He achieved this performance on August 4, 1955 at Oslo's Bislett Stadium. However, it was only enough for second place: Winners in the new world record time of 1:45,7 min was the Belgian Roger Moens. But Audun Boysen remained as seven tenths of a second under the applicable until then world record of the German Rudolf Harbig. In the same year he won the election to Norway's Sportsman of the Year. In 1953 he was honored with the Morgenbladet gold medal.

Audun Boysen was known not only for its fast legs, but also for its " elbow technique ", but the coveted prize of a title should not it ultimately enter. While at the European Championships 1958 in Bern was the almost victorious against Boysen Michael Rawson initially disqualified because he had pressed in the target curve, from the Norwegians, made ​​an evasive step into the interior, thus shortened the running track. A protest by the British but was rejected and Rawson subsequently declared to the European champions. As already returned to his native Oslo Boysen learned this from the newspaper, he sent his gold medal at Rawson.

In the course of his career, he ran the 800 meters 58 times under 1:50 minutes and 13 times under 1:48 min In 1990, he was honored with the Bislett medal. Boysen was employed by an Oslo industrial companies operating psychologist.

Achievements

  • European Championships 1954 in Bern: Bronze in 1:47,4 min behind Lajos Szentgáli from Hungary in 1:47,1 min and the Belgian Lucien de Muynck in 1:47,3 min 1958 in Stockholm: Silver in 1:47,9 min behind the British Michael Rawson in 1:47,7 min and before the same time the German Paul Schmidt.
  • Olympic games In Melbourne in 1956: Bronze in 1:48,1 minutes behind Tom Courtney in 1:47,7 min and Derek Johnson in 1:47,8 min
1954 European Athletics Championships
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