Jarl Hulldén graduated from a Swedish school in Helsinki and worked as a senior accountant and businessman. He was a crew member of the Finnish boat “Heatherbell” that placed third and last in both races of the 12 metres class at the Stockholm Olympic Games in 1912. With only three yachts competing, the crew still took bronze. He died just one year after the Olympics. With a friend, he went birding in the Inkoo archipelago off Finland’s south coast. The boat capsized and although both were good swimmers both, bodies disappeared and were probably drifted out to sea, pushed by the prevailing north wind.
Hulldén was even better known as a bandy player for Helsinki’s HIFK from 1908 until his death in 1913. The club won the Finnish championships consecutively from 1910 to 1913, not the least spurred by their captain Jarl Hulldén.
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