Anna-Lisa Adelsköld

Anna Elisabeth Maria "Anna-Lisa" Adelsköld with married name Bruun (29 August 1904 - 22 June 1991) was a Swedish track and field athlete specialized in the throwing events.[1][2]

Anna-Lisa Adelsköld
Personal information
Full nameAnna Elisabeth Maria Adelsköld
NationalitySwedish
Born(1904-08-29)29 August 1904
Öjared, Sweden
Died22 June 1991(1991-06-22) (aged 86)
Siene, Sweden
Sport
SportTrack and field athletics
Event(s)javelin throw
ClubFloda IF
Medal record
Women's athletics
Women's World Games
Gold medal – first place 1926 Gothenburg javelin throw

Sports career

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Adelsköld was a member of Floda IF.[3] She was a pioneer in women's sports and one of Sweden's early female athletics stars. Her main achievements were winning the gold medal at the 1926 Women's World Games in the javelin throw[4][5] and becoming the first Swedish national champion in 1927 in a Swedish national record of 34.93 meters.[6] Her other main achievements includes winning after the 1926 the javelin throw event at the 1926 Stockholm international women's athletics meeting.[7]

Personal life

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Adelsköld was born on the manor Öjared [sv] in the municipality of Lerum as the second child of the agronomist Gustaf Fredrik Sebastian Adlerstierna-Adelsköld (1876–1936) and his wife Signe Elisabet Anrep (1877–1961). Her father was a member of the Swedish noble Adelsköld family and her mother of the Baltic-German noble family Anrep.[8][9][10]

She studied at the now called Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in Stockholm. She later worked, next to her sports activities, as a gymnastics director and also as a church minister.[8]

In 1929 she moved to Siene in Vårgårda Municipality.[11][3] On 22 June 1929, she married agronomist and landowner Öyvind Fritiof Bruun from Tubbetorp manor in Stora Lundby parish, and she retired as an athlete.[8][10][3][11] They had six children together.[10]

References

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  1. Sveriges Dödbok 1860–2016, USB, Version 7.10, Sveriges Släktforskarförbund (2016).
  2. Elsa Sanfridsson Svensson 1906-1992, storagrabbar.se
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 Adelsköld Archived 2014-02-01 at the Wayback Machine Wårgårda Idrottshistoriska Sällskap
  4. "Les Jeux Mondiaux féminins de Gothebourg". La Dernière Heure (in French). 29 August 1926. p. 4.
  5. 90 lat polskiej lekkoatletyki 1919 - 2009 (PDF) (in Polish). Warsaw: Polish Athletics Association. 2009. p. 27. Retrieved 13 June 2024.
  6. Svenska dagbladets Årsbok 1927 Runeberg.org
  7. "Wedstrijden te Stockholm" (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. 3 September 1926. p. 5 – via uurl.kbr.be.
  8. 8.0 8.1 8.2 Adelsköld, tabell 5 Adelsvapen
  9. Adelsköld Sveriges ridderskaps och adels kalender , 1923, 46th annual
  10. 10.0 10.1 10.2 Bruun Vem är vem ? / Götaland utom Skåne, Halland, Blekinge, 1965, page 187
  11. 11.0 11.1 Bruun Alingsås släktforskarförening, page 184