Carl Johan Lind

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|birth_date= 25 May 1883

|birth_place= Karlskoga, Sweden

| death_date = 2 February 1965 (aged 85)

| death_place = Karlstad, Sweden

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|event=Discus throw, hammer throw, weight throw

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|pb=DT – 39.04 m (1912)
HT – 52.51 m (1922); WT – 11.62 m (1925)

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Carl Johan "Massa" Lind (25 May 1883 – 2 February 1965) was a Swedish athlete who competed at the 1912, 1920, 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, missing the 1916 Games that were cancelled due to World War I.

Career

Lind was selected to represent Sweden in his home Olympics in 1912 in Stockholm. He finished fifth in the hammer throw competition and eighth in the two handed discus throw event.

The following year, he won the British AAA Championships title in the hammer throw event at the 1913 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19130707/225/0014 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000893/19130707/144/0006 |title=Athletic Feats |work=Sporting Life |date=7 July 1913 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 November 2024 }} He successfully defended the title three more times in 1914, 1921 and 1922).{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000560/19220701/111/0014 |title=AAA Championships |work=Daily Mirror |date=1 July 1922 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 December 2024 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000687/19220703/418/0016 |title=Athletic Championships |work=Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer |date=3 July 1922 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=1 December 2024 }}{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 November 2024 }}

At the 1920 Summer Olympics, he has won a silver medal in the hammer throw and a bronze medal in the 56 lb weight throw, both times behind Patrick Ryan. At the 1924 and 1928 Games, he competed only in the hammer throw and finished 7th and 14th, respectively.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/76257 |title=Carl Johan Lind |work=Olympedia |access-date=2 May 2021}}

Lind won 17 Swedish titles in the hammer throw (1918–1924), weight throw (1918–19, 1921–1927) and discus throw (1910). In 1912, Lind set a national hammer throw record that stood for 15 years. Lind worked as a policeman in Karlstad and continued competing until the age of 50.[http://sok.se/idrottare/idrottare/c/carl-johan-lind.html Carl-Johan Lind]. Swedish Olympic Committee he died in Sweden in 1965.

References

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[https://web.archive.org/web/20200417173040/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/li/carl-johan-lind-1.html Carl Johan Lind]. sports-reference.com

[http://www.sok.se/5.1017605f109c54f7865800027093.html Carl Johan Lind] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100114044320/http://www.sok.se/5.1017605f109c54f7865800027093.html |date=14 January 2010 }}. Swedish Olympic Committee

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