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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...GUNDER HAEGG passes BOBBY KNOWLES as BILL HULSE matches strides with the galloping fireman at the end of the first lap. Trailing behind are Gil Dodds and Don Burnham...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haegg Breaks U.S. Mile Record Here | 7/27/1943 | See Source »

...Gundar Haegg and his traveling companion, G'1 Dodds of the Boston Athletic Association, will run the Boston Installment of their transcontinental competition in the Harvard Stadium at 7:30 o'clock on the evening of Saturday, July...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haegg to Run in Stadium July 24 | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...Relief Fund, the five-event meet will start off at 7 o'clock, and the Swedish star will be able to run in the cool twilight, as he did back in the old country. The main event, listed as two miles, may be cut to one, and will feature Haegg, Dodds, and Don Burnham of Dartmouth...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Haegg to Run in Stadium July 24 | 7/9/1943 | See Source »

...Sweden's Gunder Haegg: a 3,000-meter run; in 8 min., 1.2 sec., a new world's record; at Stockholm. In less than two months Runner Haegg has set five world's records. The others: one mile (4:06.2), two miles (8:47.8), 1,500 meters (3:45.8), 2,000 meters (5:11.8). If transportation can be arranged, Haegg will tour the U.S. this winter as guest of the Amateur Athletic Union...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Sep. 7, 1942 | 9/7/1942 | See Source »

...Gaunt & gainly Gunder Haegg, Sweden's No. 1 foot racer: a 2,000-meter run in 5 min., 16.4 sec.; clipping four-tenths of a second off the accepted world's record set by Kansan Archie San Romani in 1937; at Malmö, Sweden. It was the fourth time in three weeks that Haegg had set a new world's record. He ran 1,500 meters in 3:45.8, a mile in 4:06.2, two miles in 8:47.8. Hailed as another Nurmi, Haegg has been invited to tour the U.S. next winter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Who Won, Aug. 3, 1942 | 8/3/1942 | See Source »

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