Edgar Lindenau Aabye (14 September 1865 – 30 April 1941) was a Danish athlete and journalist who earned a gold medal in the tug of war at the age of 34 in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France,[1] after joining the team as a last-minute substitute.
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| Full name | Edgar Lindenau Aabye | |||||||||||
| Born | 14 September 1865 Helsingør, Denmark | |||||||||||
| Died | 30 April 1941 (aged 75) Copenhagen, Denmark | |||||||||||
| Occupation | Journalist | |||||||||||
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Aabye was an accomplished athlete who had previously won a Danish championship in swimming (1896) and been a competitor in rowing and cycling.[2] Aabye joined the team which then competed in the only tug-of-war contest, defeating the French team for the gold medal. Initially, Aabye was not a member of the tug-of-war team but was working at the Paris Olympics as a journalist for the Politiken newspaper.[3] When a member of the combined Dano-Swedish tug of war team was injured, the team asked Aabye to fill in as a last-minute substitute.[4]
He was the nation's first sports journalist as he worked for the broadsheet Politiken from 1892 until 1935. He had previously studied theology and taught history and geography at a middle school.[5]
References edit
- ^ "Edgar Aabye". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
- ^ "Edgar Aabye". Athletes. SR/Olympics News. 2016. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ De Los Reyes, Marco (25 October 2012). "Top 100: De største danskere ved OL" [100 greatest Danes of the Olympics] (in Danish). DR. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ Jacobsen, Henry Braad (16 June 2015). "Tovtrækning er i spil til et olympisk comeback" [Tug of war is in play for an Olympic comeback]. Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 17 March 2016.
- ^ "Edgar AABYE". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.
External links edit
- Edgar Aabye at Olympedia
- Edgar Aabye at Olympics Database
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