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Word: oxenstierna (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Modern Pentathlon, run off on five successive days, was invented by the romantic Swedes, has invariably been won by one. The Swede who won last week, Count Johan Gabriel Oxenstierna, did it without placing first in any of the five events. He was fourth in the riding (on unfamiliar mounts over 500 metres of un familiar terrain), 14th in fencing (with buttoned épees), second in the pistol shoot (at disappearing targets with a 45-calibre revolver), fifth in the swimming, seventh in running 4,000 metres across rough country. Point total...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Xth Olympiad | 8/15/1932 | See Source »

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