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{{Short description|Danish sportsperson (1920–2002)}}
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| name          = Knud Lundberg
| image         = Aanvoerders schudden elkaar de hand bij de toss onder het oog van het arbitrale , Bestanddeelnr 908-1239.jpg
| caption       = Lundberg (1956)
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| birth_date   = {{birth date|1920|5|14|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [[Copenhagen]], [[Denmark]]
| death_date   = {{death date and age|2002|8|12|1920|5|14|df=y}}
| death_place  = [[Gentofte]]
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| position       = [[Forward (association football)|Forward]]
| years1         = 1939–1959 | clubs1 = [[Akademisk Boldklub|AB]] | caps1 =  |goals1 = 
| nationalyears1 = 1944–1956 | nationalteam1 = [[Denmark national football team|Denmark]]| nationalcaps1 = 38 | nationalgoals1 = 10
| manageryears1 = 1971 | managerclubs1 = [[Akademisk Boldklub|AB]]
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| clubs1              = Handelsstandens Gymnastikforening
| nationalyears1      = 1940–1956
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| nationalcaps1       = 23
| nationalgoals1      = 26
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| ntupdate            = 12 June 2020
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| years1          = 1950–1953
| team1           = [[Denmark national basketball team|Denmark]] 18 (74 points)<ref>{{Cite web|date=January 2016|title=Knud Lundberg|url=https://www.ab-fodbold.dk/klubben/wall-of-fame/knud-lundberg/|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200612143531/https://www.ab-fodbold.dk/klubben/wall-of-fame/knud-lundberg/|archive-date=12 June 2020|access-date=12 June 2020|website=Akademisk Boldklub Gladsaxe|language=Danish}}</ref>
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{{MedalSport | Men's [[association football|football]]}}
{{MedalCountry | {{DEN}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | [[Football at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]] }}
{{MedalBronze| [[1948 Summer Olympics|1948 London]] |[[Football at the 1948 Summer Olympics|Team competition]]}}
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'''Knud Lundberg''' (14 May 1920 – 12 August 2002) was a Danish multi-talented sportsperson, who most notably won a [[bronze medal]] with the [[Denmark national football team]] at the [[1948 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/24662 |title=Knud Lundberg |work=Olympedia |access-date=13 October 2021}}</ref> He represented the Denmark national team in [[association football|football]], [[handball]] and [[basketball]], and he won the Danish national championship in all three disciplines. He played his footballing career at [[Akademisk Boldklub]].

In his civil life, Lundberg studied [[medicine]] and [[sports]]. Along with his athletic career, Lundberg worked as a [[sports journalist]], and he was the first sports [[editing|editor]] at the Danish newspaper ''[[Dagbladet Information]]'', a sports editor at the social democratic newspaper [[Aktuelt]], editor of the annual [[Fodbold Jul]] are among his other editorial posts. After ending his sporting career, he, among other things, was a [[social democratic]] regional politician and a writer. The number of books written solely by Lundberg or teaming up with other writers adds up to more than 50 with themes ranging from health to sports and fiction. His writings included the four-volume ''Dansk Fodbold''; a chronicle of Danish football from 1939 to 1989, published for the 100th anniversary of the [[Danish Football Association]].

In the last years of his life, Lundberg suffered from [[Alzheimer's disease]].

==References==
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==External links==
* {{DBU player|2744}}
* [https://www.haandbold.dk/landsholdsinfo/spiller/510321_1 Denmark national handball team profile]
* {{SR/Olympics|lu/knud-lundberg-1}}
* {{Worldfootball.net|knud-lundberg}}
* {{NFT|19499}}

{{Denmark Squad 1948 Olympic Football Tournament}}
{{Denmark Squad 1952 Olympic Football Tournament}}
{{Akademisk Boldklub managers}}
{{Danish Football Hall of Fame}}
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