Ivar Iversen (24 August 1914 – 19 August 2012) was a Norwegian

sprint canoeist Canoe sprint is a water sport in which athletes race in specially designed sprint canoes or sprint kayaks on calm water over a short distance. Prior to November 2008, canoe sprint was known as flatwater racing. The term is still in use today ...

who competed from the late 1930s to the late 1940s. He won a gold medal in the K-1 4 x 500 m event at the

1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships The 1948 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in London, Great Britain. This event was held under the auspices of the International Canoe Federation, formed in 1946 from the Internationale Repräsentantenschaft Kanusport (IRK). The men's ...

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. Iversen also competed at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

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, finishing eighth in the K-1 1000 m event. Note that the K-1 4 x 500 m event was separate from the canoeing competitions at the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...

. The K-1 4 x 500 m event was only held once at the 1960 Games in

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References

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Ivar Iversen's profile at Sports Reference.comIvar Iversen's obituary

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* 1914 births 2012 deaths Canoeists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Norwegian male canoeists Olympic canoeists for Norway ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak 20th-century Norwegian sportsmen {{Norway-canoe-bio-stub