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Georg de Laval

Georg de Laval
Georg de Laval 1912b.jpg
Georg de Laval at the 1912 Olympics
Personal information
Born (1883-04-16)16 April 1883
, Sweden
Died 10 March 1970(1970-03-10) (aged 86)
Stockholm, Sweden
Sport
Sport Shooting, modern pentathlon
Club Stockholms PK
A1 IF, Stockholm

Patrik Georg Fabian de Laval (16 April 1883 – 10 March 1970) was a Swedish sports shooter and modern pentathlete who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team that won the silver medal in the 50 m team military pistol event. Individually he won a bronze medal in the first-contested modern pentathlon.

De Laval was born of a Swedish noble family. In 1913 he married baroness Ebba Fleetwood, the eldest daughter of baron Carl Fleetwood, 10th baron of Jälunda, and his first wife countess Hedvig, née . His brothers Patrik and Erik were also Olympic pentathletes.



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