28 April 1973(1973-04-28) (aged 80) Helsinki, Finland
Height
1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Weight
67 kg (148 lb)
Sport
Country
Finland
Sport
Speed skating
Medal record
Men's speed skating
Representing Finland
Olympic Games
1924 Chamonix
1500 m
1924 Chamonix
5000 m
1924 Chamonix
Allround
1924 Chamonix
10000 m
1924 Chamonix
500 m
1928 St. Moritz
500 m
1928 St. Moritz
1500 m
World Allround Championships
1922 Kristiania
Allround
1923 Stockholm
Allround
1925 Oslo
Allround
1927 Tampere
Allround
1928 Davos
Allround
1929 Oslo
Allround
1931 Helsinki
Allround
European Championships
1922 Helsinki
Allround
1923 Hamar
Allround
1924 Kristiania
Allround
1927 Stockholm
Allround
1928 Oslo
Allround
1929 Davos
Allround
1931 Stockholm
Allround
1932 Davos
Allround
Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg (5 April 1893 – 28 April 1973) was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural Winter Olympics held in Chamonix in 1924 (along with a silver and a bronze medal) and two at the 1928 Winter Olympics held in St. Moritz. He was the most successful athlete at both of these Winter Olympics, sharing the honour for 1928 Winter Olympics with Johan Grøttumsbraaten of Norway.
No other athlete ever won such a high fraction of all Olympic events at a single Games.
He was born and died in Helsinki.[1]
^"Clas Thunberg". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2012.
Arnold Clas ("Classe") Robert Thunberg (5 April 1893 – 28 April 1973) was a Finnish speed skater who won five Olympic gold medals – three at the inaugural...
medal of the 1924 Winter Games, and ClasThunberg and Roald Larsen each won medals in all five events, with Thunberg winning 3 gold. Eleven speed skaters...
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skier Lyubov Yegorova is the other). At the 1924 Winter Olympics, Finn ClasThunberg became the first athlete to win two or more gold medals; in 1928, he...
(12) by winning bronze medals in 2005, 2006 and 2019. Before Kramer, ClasThunberg from Finland and Oscar Mathisen from Norway held the record with five...
on the table, collecting four gold medals amongst a total of eleven. ClasThunberg won five of their medals, achieving a medal in each of the speed skating...
Ballangrud won the Olympic title in the 5,000-metre speed skating event, and ClasThunberg of Finland won both the 500 m and the 1,500 m. Norway finished at the...
Finland won the remaining four gold medals at the 1924 Games, with ClasThunberg winning 1,500 metres, 5,000 metres, and allround. It was the first and...
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11 medals. The majority of these were awarded in speed skating, to ClasThunberg and Julius Skutnabb. The following Finnish competitors won medals at...
had to take the medals to the winning athletes. Finnish speed skater ClasThunberg topped the medal count with five medals: three golds, one silver, and...
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Winter Olympics of St. Moritz. Larsen often had to admit defeat to ClasThunberg. This is illustrated by the fact that at none of the six events in which...
Finland took home 4 medals, all in speed skating. These were won by ClasThunberg, Julius Skutnabb, and Jaakko Friman. Finland also took second place...
Ivar Ballangrud of Norway, ClasThunberg of Finland, and Jennison Heaton of the United States. Both Grøttumsbråten and Thunberg were multiple medal winners...
and 2 March 1924 at the ice rink Pohjoissatama in Helsinki, Finland. ClasThunberg was defending champion but did not succeed in prolonging his title....
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