event death_place death_date club birth_place weight height pb sport birth_date image article_title
long javelin throw , decathlon jump , shot put , discus throw , bromma , stockholm , sweden 24 may 1976 -lrb- aged 86 -rrb- ifk stockholm ljuder , sweden 81 kg lb on 1.82 m ftin on lj 13.15 sq -lrb- 1908 -rrb- dt -- 37.53 m -lrb- -- 1908 -rrb- jt -- 52.77 m -lrb- 1908 -rrb- decathlon 6.56 -- 5965 -lrb- 1912 -rrb- m -lrb- 1912 -rrb- sp -- ahtletics 11 june 1889 hugo wieslander crop.jpg hugo wieslander

hugo wieslander

karl hugo wieslander -lrb- 11 june 1889 -- 24 may 1976 -rrb- was a swedish athlete , who competed in combined events .
he set the inaugural world record in the pentathlon in gothenburg , sweden in 1911 with a score of 5516 points .
the following year he finished second in the decathlon at the 1912 summer olympics in stockholm , sweden , 688 points behind jim thorpe .
in 1913 , after it was discovered that thorpe played professional baseball for a minor league team , thorpe was disqualified for not being an amateur .
wieslander was therefore declared the winner of the 1912 olympics .
he was awarded the gold medal but refused to accept it .
in 1982 jim thorpe was reinstated by the ioc with hugo wieslander as joint winners of the 1912 olympic decathlon .
