Tomas Gustafson

Tomas Gustafson is a retired Swedish speed skater and distance skater, born Sven Tomas Gustafson in Katrineholm on 28 December 1959 and active in the 1980s. He won the World Junior title in 1979, became allround European Champion in 1982 and set a 10,000 m world record in Oslo, the last outdoor record for men on a lowland track. At the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo he won the 5000 m by two hundredths of a second ahead of Igor Malkov, and at Calgary in 1988 he won the 5000 m again and the 10,000 m in a world record 13:48.20. He twice received the Oscar Mathisen Award, and he is the only speed skater since the Second World War to win all four distances at a European Allround Championships, which he did in 1988. He is married to the curler Elisabet Gustafson.