Edgar Aabye

Edgar Aabye
	The Tug of war competition at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris - Denmark/Sweden v France
Personal information
Full name	Edgar Lindenau Aabye
Born	14 September 1865; Helsingør, Denmark
Died	30 April 1941 (aged 75); Copenhagen, Denmark
Occupation	Journalist
Medal record
Men's tug of war
Representing a Mixed team

Edgar Lindenau Aabye (14 September 1865 – 30 April 1941) was a Danish athlete and journalist who earned a gold medal in the tug of war at the age of 34 in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France,^[1] after joining the team as a last-minute substitute.

Aabye was an accomplished athlete who had previously won a Danish championship in swimming (1896) and been a competitor in rowing and cycling.^[2] Aabye joined the team which then competed in the only tug-of-war contest, defeating the French team for the gold medal. Initially, Aabye was not a member of the tug-of-war team but was working at the Paris Olympics as a journalist for the Politiken newspaper.^[3] When a member of the combined Dano-Swedish tug of war team was injured, the team asked Aabye to fill in as a last-minute substitute.^[4]

He was the nation's first sports journalist as he worked for the broadsheet Politiken from 1892 until 1935. He had previously studied theology and taught history and geography at a middle school.^[5]

References

^ "Edgar Aabye". Olympedia. Retrieved 3 January 2021.
^ "Edgar Aabye". Athletes. SR/Olympics News. 2016. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
^ De Los Reyes, Marco (25 October 2012). "Top 100: De største danskere ved OL" [100 greatest Danes of the Olympics] (in Danish). DR. Retrieved 17 March 2016.
^ Jacobsen, Henry Braad (16 June 2015). "Tovtrækning er i spil til et olympisk comeback" [Tug of war is in play for an Olympic comeback]. Politiken (in Danish). Retrieved 17 March 2016.
^ "Edgar AABYE". Olympics.com. Retrieved 2021-09-22.