Sigurd Wathne
Personal information
Date of birth (1898-02-12)12 February 1898
Place of birth Copenhagen, Denmark
Date of death 26 March 1942(1942-03-26) (aged 44)
Place of death Swansea, Wales
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
SK Brann
International career
Norway 14
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Sigurd Wathne (12 February 1898 – 26 March 1942) was a Denmark-born Norwegian football goalkeeper, playing for the club SK Brann. He was born in Copenhagen. He was on the Norway national team at the Antwerp Olympics in 1920;[1] they reached the quarter finals.[2] He was capped 14 times for Norway.[3]

A seaman in the Norwegian Merchant Navy during World War II he sailed as first engineer with SS Risøy, which was bombed by German aircraft when in convoy off Trevose Head, Cornwall, on 20 March 1942, and he died in a hospital in Swansea six days later.[4][5][6] He was buried at Danygraig Cemetery, Swansea.[7]

References

  1. ↑ "Sigurd Wathne". Olympedia. Retrieved 15 August 2021.
  2. ↑ "Sigurd Wathne". Sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  3. ↑ Søfting, Thomas (21 January 2012). "All-time national team players". Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation. Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 16 February 2012.
  4. ↑ Ording, Arne; Johnson, Gudrun; Garder, Johan (1951). "Wathne, Sigurd". Våre falne 1939-1945 (in Norwegian). Vol. 4. Oslo: The State of Norway. p. 510. Retrieved 9 February 2012.
  5. ↑ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
  6. ↑ Warsailors.com, R/S Risoy. Date retrieved 14 July 2023.
  7. ↑ https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/7514998/SIGURD%20WATHNE/ Commonwealth War Graves Commission casualty record. Date retrieved 4 October 2020.


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