1. Johan Georg Harmenberg Akerman was born on 8 September 1954 and is a Swedish Olympic and world champion epee fencer.
19 Facts About Johan Harmenberg
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Johan Harmenberg completed two years of study at MIT in 1975, during which time he went by the name Johan Akerman.
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Johan Harmenberg left MIT two years early and returned to Sweden, having been drafted by the Swedish Army in the summer of 1974.
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Johan Harmenberg holds an MD and a PhD in virology from Karolinska Institute, Stockholm, Sweden.
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Johan Harmenberg fenced for the club Foreningen for Faktkonstens Framjande in Sweden.
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Johan Harmenberg has won eight total epee gold medals in both individual and team competitions at Olympic, World Championships, and World Cup tournaments.
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Johan Harmenberg won 12 Swedish national championships, as well as five silver medals and six bronze medals at Swedish national championships.
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Johan Harmenberg won the 1977 World Championship titles in Individual Epee and Team Epee in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
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Johan Harmenberg won a bronze medal in Team Epee at the 1979 World Championships in Hamburg, Germany.
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Johan Harmenberg won team titles at the 1977 and 1980 World Cups.
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At the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, Johan Harmenberg won a gold medal in the Individual Epee.
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Johan Harmenberg is the only Swede to have won an individual gold medal in fencing.
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Johan Harmenberg was a member of the Swedish epee team as well; the team placed 5th in the team epee competition.
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Johan Harmenberg, who is Jewish, was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1997.
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Johan Harmenberg is an Associate Professor of Virology at Karolinska Institute.
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Johan Harmenberg has been the Global Medical Director for Pharmacia Upjohn, Vice President of Pharmaceutical Development for Medivir AB, Chief Medical Officer at Algeta AB, Chief Executive Officer at Axelar AB and Akinion AB, and Chief Medical Officer of Oncopeptides AB until he reached their retirement age.
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Johan Harmenberg is the author of over 100 publications in scientific literature.
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Johan Harmenberg has had a distinguished career in medical pharmacology, publishing a variety of papers relating to viral immunology.
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Johan Harmenberg co-authored Epee 2.0: The Birth of the New Fencing Paradigm, and Epee 2.5: The New Paradigm Revised and Augmented.