Evert Gotthardt Karlsson (4 August 1920 – 23 May 1996) was a Swedish

Sweden

Sweden , officially the Kingdom of Sweden , is a Nordic country on the Scandinavian Peninsula in Northern Europe. Sweden borders with Norway and Finland and is connected to Denmark by a bridge-tunnel across the Öresund....

 ski jumper.

He was born in Løkken Verk

Løkken Verk

Løkken Verk is a village in the municipality of Meldal in Sør-Trøndelag county, Norway. It is located south of Svorkmo , east of Bjørnli, and north of the municipal center of Meldal....

 in Norway, and grew up there with his ski jumper brothers Arthur and Kåre Karlsson

Kåre Karlsson

Kåre Ingemar Karlsson is a former Swedish ski jumper.He was born in Løkken Verk in Norway, and grew up there with his ski jumper brothers Arthur and Evert Karlsson. They represented the sports club Løkken IF...

. They represented the sports club Løkken IF

Løkken IF

Løkken Idrettsforening is a Norwegian sports club from Løkken Verk, Sør-Trøndelag. It has sections for association football, speed skating and Nordic skiing....

. Evert Karlsson moved to Örnsköldsvik

Örnsköldsvik

Örnsköldsvik is a locality and the seat of Örnsköldsvik Municipality in Västernorrland County, Sweden with 28,617 inhabitants in 2005.Its natural harbour and archipelago is in the Gulf of Bothnia and the northern boundaries of the High Coast area. It is well known as an exporter of paper products...

 in his father's home country Sweden in 1940, and joined the club IF Friska Viljor

IF Friska Viljor

Idrettsföreningen Friska Viljor is a Swedish ski jumping and Nordic combined club from Örnsköldsvik, Västernorrland County.It formerly offered more sports. A football club named Friska Viljor FC was separated from IF Friska Viljor in February 1994...

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At the 1948 Winter Olympics

Ski jumping at the 1948 Winter Olympics

-K90 individual ski jumping :February 7, 1948The competition took place at "Olympiaschanze" with a K-Point of 68m .-External references:*...

, he finished eleventh. He won the 1949 Swedish championships, finished eleventh at the 1950 World Ski Championships

1950 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1950 took place during February 1–6, 1950 in Lake Placid, New York, USA and Rumford, Maine, USA. This was Lake Placid's second time hosting the championships after having done so at the 1932 Winter Olympics. It also marked the first time after World War II the...

 and 23rd at the at the 1954 World Ski Championships

1954 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships

The FIS Nordic World Ski Championships 1954 took place February 13-21, 1954 in Falun, Sweden. These were the first races where women competed with events in the 10 km and 3 x 5 km relay. It also saw the 18 km reduced to 15 km in men's cross country along with the return of the 30 km which was last...

. He died in May 1996 in Örnsköldsvik.