Holger Nielsen

Holger Louis Nielsen was a Danish fencer, sport shooter and athlete, born on 18 December 1866 and died on 26 January 1955, who competed at the 1896 Summer Olympics in Athens. His main sport was fencing, and he placed third in the sabre event with a 2-2 record in a five-man round-robin. In shooting he placed fifth in the military pistol, won a bronze medal in the rapid fire pistol, and took a surprise silver medal in the free pistol, scoring 285 against Sumner Paine's 442. He also threw the discus and played in the unofficial football match in which a Danish XI beat a Greek team. He is probably best known for drawing up the first set of rules for the game of handball in 1898, and in 1932 he developed an early form of external cardiopulmonary resuscitation, the Holger Nielsen method.