Sverre Strandli

Sverre Gunnar Strandli ( born September 30, 1925 in Brandval; † 4 March 1985) was a Norwegian athlete. At a height of 1.86 m his competition weight was 93 kg.

Sverre Strandli won the competition in the hammer throw with a distance of 55.71 meters ahead of the Italian Teseo Taddia with 54.73 meters at the European Championships 1950 in Brussels. After this success Strandli was elected in 1950 Sportsman of the Year in Norway.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 it reached 56.36 meters square 7, wherein only European launcher in front of him. It won the Hungarian József Csermák, which is by 60.34 meters, the first sixty -meter-throw succeeded at all. On September 14, 1952 Sverre Strandli surpassed the international match against Norway in Oslo Finland Csermáks world record with 61.25 meters.

On September 5, 1953 Sverre Strandli improved at a sports festival in Oslo the world record for a second time, this time at 62.36 meters. In this competition, the two Hungarian Olympic champion Imre Németh József Csermák and came up with the places 2 and 3 for this world record was again Strandli Norway Sportsman of the Year.

At the European Championships in Berne in 1954 Strandli threw the hammer 61.07 meters. But he won only silver because of An incoming for the Soviet Union White Russian Mikhail Kriwonosow with 63.34 meters threw a new world record.

In Melbourne at the 1956 Olympic Games took Strandli with 59.21 meters Rank 8 Four years later at the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 threw Strandli with 63.05 meters further than his world record, but achieved with this width only ranked 11th at the European Championships 1962 in Belgrade Strandli missed with 61.78 meters as Thirteenth qualifying into the finals. At season's end threw Strandli on 8 October 1962 in Trondheim with 63.88 meters his personal best, but were now almost seven meters behind the world record by the American Hal Connolly back.

Strandli was Norwegian champion in the hammer throw in the years 1949-1954, 1956-1957 and 1960-1962, in addition, it was 1954 Norwegian champion in the shot put. In the hammer throw Strandli presented to a total of 21 Norwegian national records.