Erik Adlerz

Erik Willam " Loppan " Adlerz ( born July 23, 1892 in Stockholm, † September 8, 1975 in Gothenburg ) was a Swedish diver. Adlerz took 1908-1924 part four times in the Olympic Games and was at the Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912, two -time Olympic champion.

Adlerz made ​​his Olympic debut at the 1908 Olympic Games in London, where the Swedish team dominated the water jump competitions. However, the 16 year old Adlerz could against stiff competition from their own country does not prevail and not make it past the preliminaries.

Four years later at the Olympics in his home country, he always wore then permanently in the annals of the swimming sport a. He was able to continue the dominance of Swedish and he decided both competitions in diving for themselves. His further career was hampered by the First World War, the 1916 pulled the cancellation of the Olympic Games by itself.

At the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920, the first after the war ended, he took another silver medal in platform diving ( 5 m and 10 m). In simple Jumping ( 3 m and 10 m), he finished fourth behind three of his Swedish teammates. His last appearance in the Olympics he had. During the 1924 Olympics in Paris, where he again achieved a fourth place from the tower

As a pioneer of water jumping Adlerz was inducted into the Hall of Fame of the international swimming sport in 1986.