Roles | Competed in Olympic Games |
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Sex | Female |
Full name | Maud Elisabeth•Sundberg (-Nörklit) |
Used name | Maud•Sundberg |
Born | 22 December 1911 in Stockholm, Stockholm (SWE) |
Died | 30 November 2010 in Djursholm, Danderyd, Stockholm (SWE) |
Affiliations | IFK Enskede, Enskede, Stockholm (SWE) |
NOC | Sweden |
Maud Sundberg competed at the first Women’s World Games in Göteborg in 1925. She failed to advance past the first round but in 1927 and 1928 won the Swedish 60 m title, with the 1927 meet the first ever for Swedish women’s athletics. Later married as Maud Nörklit, she was the mother-in-law of Benny Andersson, of the famed rock group ABBA.
Personal Best: 100 – 12.7 (1928).
Games | Discipline (Sport) / Event | NOC / Team | Pos | Medal | As | |
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1928 Summer Olympics | Athletics | SWE | Maud Sundberg | |||
100 metres, Women (Olympic) | 6 h2 r2/3 | |||||
4 × 100 metres Relay, Women (Olympic) | Sweden | 4 h1 r1/2 |