Viljo Nousiainen

Viljo Nousiainen (9 March 1944 – 11 June 1999) was a prominent Swedish Finn athletics coach.[1][2]

Career

Nousiainen was born in Kiuruvesi. As an athletics coach, he specialized in training jumpers for Örgryte IS Sports Club in Gothenburg during the 1970s.[2] He is best known as the coach and stepfather of Swedish world record high jumper Patrik Sjöberg.[3] His other noted trainees were high jumpers Yannick Tregaro[4] and Stefan Holm[5] and triple jumper Christian Olsson.[6][2] He died in Gothenburg, Sweden.

Scandal

In April 2011, Sjöberg and Tregaro revealed they had been sexually molested as children by Nousiainen.[7][4] Sjöberg recounted Nousiainen's abuse in his biography Det du inte såg ("What you didn't see").[8] In 2009, Norwegian athlete Christian Skaar Thomassen, contacted his friend Sjöberg and told him that Nousiainen had also molested him when he was 11 years old. That conversation was the starting point for the book.[9][6]

See also

References
  1. Wallechinsky, David; Loucky, Jaime (2012). The Complete Book of the Olympics 2012. London: Aurum Press. pp. 216–217. ISBN 978-1-84513-695-6.
  2. Danielsson, Kerstin (13 June 1999). "Viljo Nousiainen död, Sjöberg: Jag är chockad" [Viljo Nousiainen dead, Sjöberg: I'm chocked]. Aftonbladet. Aftonbladet. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  3. "Birgitta Sjöbergs egen berättelse" [Birgitta Sjöberg's own story]. Dagens Nyheter. Dagens Nyheter. 10 May 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  4. "Tregaro också utsatt för övergrepp" [Tregano also a victim of abuse]. Dagens Nyheter. Dagens Nyheter. 27 April 2011. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  5. Haraldsson, Anders (28 April 2011). "Stefan Holm: Jag är chockad" [Stefan Holm: I'm choced]. Svenska Dagbladet. Svenska Dagbladet. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  6. Skogh, Karin (29 April 2011). "Olsson: Viljo blir lite av ett monster" [Olsson: Vijlo becomes a bit like a monster]. Expressen. Expressen. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
  7. "Sjoberg reveals sexual abuse from coach". Eurosport. 28 April 2011. Retrieved 29 July 2013.
  8. Sjöberg, Patrik; Lutteman, Markus (2011). Det du inte såg [What you didn't see]. Stockholm: Norstedt. ISBN 978-91-1-303430-0. SELIBR 12032411.
  9. Jonson, Malin (28 April 2011). "Skaar Thomassen startade allt: "Det känns viktigt att belysa"" [Skaar Thomassen started it all: "It is important to bring it into the light"]. Göteborgs-Posten. Göteborgs-Posten. Retrieved 26 January 2018.


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