{{short description|Norwegian middle-distance runner}} {{Infobox sportsperson |image=Friidrett, Bislet - L0020 342Fo30141605030038 (cropped).jpg |birth_date=10 May 1929 |death_date= {{death date and age|2000|3|2|1929|5|10|df=y}} |birth_place= |medaltemplates= {{MedalSport| Men's athletics}} {{MedalCountry|{{NOR}}}} {{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}} {{MedalBronze| 1956 Melbourne| 800 m}} {{MedalCompetition|European Championships}} {{MedalSilver| 1958 Stockholm |800 m}} {{MedalBronze|1954 Bern|800 m}} }}
'''Audun Boysen''' (10 May 1929 – 2 March 2000) was a Norwegian middle distance runner. Born in Bjarkøy and raised in Rissa, he first represented Rissa IL and later IK Tjalve in Oslo.
Boysen was a prominent 800 metre runner in the 1950s, and he won a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics, a silver medal at the 1958 European Championships and another bronze at the 1954 European Championships. He set three world records over 1,000 metres, the last being 2:19.0 in 1955.
The same year he ran {{convert|800|m}} in 1:45.9, a new Norwegian record, finishing second to Belgian Roger Moens, who ran a world record time, with Boysen also under the old record. That Norwegian record stood for 37 years until 3 July 1992 when it was broken by Atle Douglas (1:45.15) and Vebjørn Rodal (1:45.33). Rodal became Olympic champion four years later.
==References== *{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/audun-boysen-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417171138/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/bo/audun-boysen-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=2020-04-17 |title=Audun Boysen}}
{{s-start}} {{s-ach|aw}} {{succession box | title=Norwegian Sportsperson of the Year | before=Stein Eriksen| after=Egil Danielsen| years=1955}} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Boysen, Audun}} Category:Olympic athletes for Norway Category:1929 births Category:2000 deaths Category:Norwegian men middle-distance runners Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1952 Summer Olympics Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Norway Category:European Athletics Championships medalists Category:Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics Category:Olympic bronze medalists in athletics Category:20th-century Norwegian sportsmen
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