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| show-medals = | updated = }} Edy Sixten Jernberg (6 February 1929 – 14 July 2012) was a Swedish cross-country skier. Jernberg was born in Lima, Dalarna County. He was a blacksmith and a lumberjack before beginning his career as a cross-country distance skier.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sixten Jernberg )〕 Through a career lasting from the 1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships in Falun to the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he won four World Championships gold medals and nine Olympic medals. Among his unique feats are that, in 12 starts, over three consecutive Winter Games, he never finished worse than fifth. Jernberg specialised in the longer distances, with four of his eight gold medals coming in the 50 km distance, one was over 30 km and three in 4 x 10 km. He also won Vasaloppet twice, 1955 and 1960.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Sixten Jernberg, Swedish XC Star, Dead At 83 )〕 He won the 15 km at the Holmenkollen ski festival in 1954. For his cross-country skiing successes, Jernberg was awarded the Holmenkollen medal in 1960 (shared with Helmut Recknagel, Sverre Stensheim and Tormod Knutsen). He was also awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal in 1956 (shared with pentathlete Lars Hall).〔 Jernberg retired after the Olympic Winter Games of 1964. In 1965, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) awarded Jernberg the Mohammed Taher Trophy for his contributions to Nordic skiing.〔 ==Training== At one competition, Jernberg had a fever and coughed up blood, but still finished the 50 km event.〔http://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/vintersport/skidor/article8161216.ab〕 Gunde Svan said: "It was almost like () didn't like his own body and tried to punish it in different ways."〔Från Sixten till Kalla (From Sixten to Kalla), a documentary film about Swedish ski history during the last 100 years by Jens Lind, SVT, 2008.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Sixten Jernberg」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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