Sport Fencing | Name Sigurd Akre-Aas | |
Born 12 June 1897 ( 1897-06-12 ) Ytre Rendal, Hedmark, Norway Died June 18, 1968, Asker, Norway | ||
Sigurd Akre-Aas (12 June 1897 – 18 June 1968) was a Norwegian Olympic fencer. He competed at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics.
He also won the national championships in the 1920s – most of them with the sabre (1922, 1923, 1925, 1926 and 1928). In his private life, he was an engineer specialising in refrigerator systems. He survived the war years as an inventor of small household appliances. The company he started in 1946 still exists.
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