Not to be confused with the Danish gymnast and Olympic competitor Carl Andersen (gymnast) or with another Danish gymnast and Olympic gold medalist Carl Rudolf Andersen

Rudolf Andersen

Carl Rudolf Svend Andersen was a Danish gymnast who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.He was part of the Danish team, which was able to win the gold medal in the gymnastics men's team, free system event in 1920....

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Carl Albert "Flisa" Andersen (August 15, 1876 – September 28, 1951) was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 pole vault

Pole vault

Pole vaulting is a track and field event in which a person uses a long, flexible pole as an aid to leap over a bar. Pole jumping competitions were known to the ancient Greeks, as well as the Cretans and Celts...

er, high jumper, and gymnast

Gymnast

Gymnasts are people who participate in the sports of either artistic gymnastics, trampolining, or rhythmic gymnastics.See gymnasium for the origin of the word gymnast from gymnastikos.-Female artistic:Australia...

 who competed in the late 19th century and early 20th century.

He participated in Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics

Athletics at the 1900 Summer Olympics

At the 1900 Summer Olympics, twenty-three athletics events were contested. 117 athletes from 15 nations competed. In many countries, due in part to the conflagration of the Olympic Games and the World's Fair in Paris, the media discussed only the athletics events under the "Olympic" name while...

 in Paris

Paris

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 and won the bronze medal

Bronze medal

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 in the men's pole vault as well as taking fourth in the high jump. Meredith Colket won silver. Andersen also finished fourth in high jump.

At the 1906 Summer Olympics

1906 Summer Olympics

The 1906 Intercalated Games or 1906 Olympic Games were an international multi-sport event which was celebrated in Athens, Greece. They were at the time considered to be Olympic Games and were referred to as the "Second International Olympic Games in Athens" by the International Olympic Committee...

 in Athens

Athens

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, he was a member of the Norwegian gymnastics team, which won the gold medal in the team, Swedish system event

Gymnastics at the 1906 Summer Olympics

At the 1906 Summer Olympics in Athens, four gymnastics events were contested, all for men only. Now called the Intercalated Games, the 1906 Games are no longer considered as an official Olympic Games by the International Olympic Committee....

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In 1908 he won a silver medal in the gymnastics team

Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics - Men's team

The men's team was one of two gymnastics events on the Gymnastics at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme. Each team was composed of between 16 and 40 gymnasts, with a time limit of 30 minutes for the performance. Free gymnastics and hand apparati were allowed...

event with the Norwegian team.

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