Sigurd Wathne

{{short description|Norwegian footballer (1898-1942)}}

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| birth_date = {{birth date|1898|2|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Copenhagen, Denmark

| death_date = {{death date and age |1942|3|26|1898|2|12|df=y}}

| death_place = Swansea, Wales

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| position = Goalkeeper

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Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Denmark-born Norwegian football goalkeeper, playing for the club SK Brann. He was born in Copenhagen. He was on the Norway national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920;{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/26858 |title=Sigurd Wathne |work=Olympedia |access-date=15 August 2021}} they reached the quarter finals.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/sigurd-wathne-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418035058/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/wa/sigurd-wathne-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Sigurd Wathne |publisher=Sports-reference.com |accessdate=9 February 2012 }} He was capped 14 times for Norway.{{cite web|last=Søfting |first=Thomas |title=All-time national team players |url=http://www.home.no/greenriver/landslaget.html |publisher=Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation |accessdate=16 February 2012 |date=21 January 2012 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726003621/http://www.home.no/greenriver/landslaget.html |archivedate=26 July 2011 }}

A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during World War II he sailed as first engineer with SS Risøy, which was bombed by German aircraft when in convoy off Trevose Head, Cornwall, on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in Swansea six days later.{{cite encyclopedia|title=Wathne, Sigurd |page=510|last=Ording|first=Arne |authorlink=Arne Ording|author2=Johnson, Gudrun |author3=Garder, Johan |encyclopedia=Våre falne 1939-1945|publisher=The State of Norway|location=Oslo|year=1951 |volume=4|language=Norwegian|url=http://da2.uib.no/cgi-win/WebBok.exe?slag=lesside&bokid=vaarefalne4&sideid=511&storleik=|accessdate=9 February 2012}}{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417055433/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/friv/lists.cgi?id=65 |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War |accessdate=24 July 2018 |work=Sports Reference}}[http://www.warsailors.com/singleships/risoy.html ]Warsailors.com, R/S Risoy. Date retrieved 14 July 2023. He was buried at Danygraig Cemetery, Swansea.https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7514998/SIGURD%20WATHNE/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record. Date retrieved 4 October 2020.