Edgar Aabye

Edgar Lindenau Aabye (1865 to 1941) was a Danish athlete and journalist who won an Olympic gold medal in the tug of war at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, at the age of 34. He had not been picked for the team: he was in Paris working as a journalist for the Politiken newspaper when a member of the combined Dano-Swedish tug of war team was injured, and the team asked him to step in as a last-minute substitute. The team went on to defeat the French team for the gold medal in the only tug-of-war contest of those Games. Before that he had won a Danish championship in swimming in 1896 and had competed in rowing and cycling. He had studied theology and taught history and geography at a middle school, and he worked for Politiken from 1892 until 1935, which made him the first sports journalist in Denmark.