Career
Andersson set a 1500 metres world record in Gothenburg in August 1943 with a time of 3:45.0 minister He was born in Trollhättan, Sweden. Andersson set three world records in the mile: the first in Stockholm in July 1942 in (4:062).
This record was broken in the same year by Hägg (4:046).
Andersson recaptured the world record in Gothenburg in July 1943 (4:026), and improved it further in Malmö in July 1944 (4:016). However, Hägg had the last word when he ran (4:014) in Malmö in 1945 (Hägg"s record was not broken until Roger Bannister ran the first sub-4 mile in Oxford in 1954).
In 1946 he was disqualified for violating amateur rules, together with Gunder Hägg and Henry Jonsson.