Gösta Åsbrink

Karl Gösta Åsbrink was a Swedish gymnast and modern pentathlete, born at Lovö in Ekörö, Stockholm on 18 November 1881, who died in Stockholm on 19 April 1966. He won a gold medal with the Swedish men's gymnastics team at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, and four years later, competing before a home crowd in Stockholm in 1912, he won an individual silver medal in the first modern pentathlon contested at the Olympic Games. He was a lieutenant in the Swedish Army at the time of the 1912 Games and was later promoted to major.