Edgar Aabye
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| Full name | Edgar Lindenau Aabye | |||||||||
| Nationality | Denmark | |||||||||
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September 14, 1865 Helsingør, Denmark |
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| Died | April 30, 1941 (aged 75) Copenhagen, Denmark |
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| Occupation | Journalist | |||||||||
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Edgar Lindenau Aabye (September 14, 1865 – April 30, 1941) was a Danish athlete who earned a gold medal in the tug of war at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France. Initially, Aabye was not a member of the tug-of-war team but was working at the Paris Olympics as a journalist for the Politiken newspaper. When a member of the combined Dano-Swedish tug of war team was injured, the team asked Aabye to fill in as a last-minute substitute. Aabye was an accomplished athlete who had previously won a Danish championship in swimming (1896) and been a competitor in rowing and cycling. Aabye joined the team which then competed in the only tug-of-war contest, defeating the French team for the gold medal.
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