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Full name
  
Par Arvidsson

Strokes
  
Nickname(s)
  
Para

Name
  
Par Arvidsson

Nationality
  
Sweden

Role
  
Butterfly swimmer

Sport
  

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Born
  
February 27, 1960 (age 64) (
1960-02-27
)
Finspang, Sweden

Olympic medals
  
Swimming at the 1980 Summer Olympics – Men\'s 100 metre butterfly

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Pär Arvidsson (born February 27, 1960 in Finspång) is a former butterfly swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m butterfly at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, after having set the world record in the same event a couple of months earlier in Austin, Texas. He held the record until April 1981.

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Between 1976 and 1983 he became Swedish champion 22 times.

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He held the Swedish record in the 200 butterfly until 2008.

After Graduating from the University of California Berkeley with a degree in economics he attended and graduated from Harvard Business School.

1981 NCAA Swim Champs-100 Fly; Austin Texas


Clubs

  • Finspångs SK
  • References

    Pär Arvidsson Wikipedia