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Agneta Andersson recently passed away.
Friend Anette Norberg is now mourning the Olympic icon.
– It was a shock, she tells Sportbibeln.
This week it was announced that the former canoeist and the most successful female Swedish Olympian of all time, Agneta Andersson, passed away after a long battle with illness. She was 62 years old.
Andersson’s career
Agneta won a total of seven Olympic medals during her career, three of which were gold. She also won eleven WC medals, including one gold from the 1993 WC in Copenhagen. During the Olympics in Barcelona in 1992 and the Olympics in Atlanta in 1996 it was Susanne Gunnarsson who was Agneta’s radar partner in the K-2 500. Together they won three Olympic medals, and the duo was awarded the Bragdguldet in 1996.
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Annette Norbergone of Sweden’s most successful curling players of all time, knew Agneta well.
– Partly, we sat in Bragdjuryn together, and Susanne Gunnarsson is one of my closest friends, and Agneta was another of Susanne’s very close friends. I spoke to Susanne last Sunday and tried to support her, who has experienced so much and was close to Agneta, says Anette to Sportbibeln.
Anette Norberg’s grief
She continues:
– Then I met Agneta a few times and she was a fantastic person. She was calm, you immediately got a very… ‘connection’ with her, she was the kind of person you felt seen by. It’s terribly tragic.
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For Anette, Agneta’s death was a tough message to receive.
– I was very sad. Now, through Susanne, I’ve known about this (that Agneta was ill) for a while, but it’s still a shock when it happens. And it went so unbelievably fast, says Anette.
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