Haukur Clausen (8 November 1928 â 1 May 2003) was an Icelandic Olympic athlete and a dentist.
Clausen's father was Arreboe Clausen (5 November 1892 â 8 December 1956), a merchant and later chauffeur, and his mother was Sesselja ÃÂorsteinsdóttir Clausen (born 28 December 1905). Haukur had a twin brother, ÃÂrn, and a half-brother, Alfreð Clausen (born 1918).
On 6 January 1951, Clausen married Margrét ÃÂóra HallgrÃÂmsson, with whom he had ÃÂrn Friðrik (born 13 July 1951), but they separated just a year later. He later remarried and had two children: Anna Marie (born 25 November 1954) and Haukur Arreboe (born 9 October 1959). His last wife was ElÃÂn Hrefna Thorarensen (born 17 February 1944), whom he married on 11 March 1967. They had Ragnheiður ElÃÂn (born 16 May 1968) and ÃÂórunn Erna Clausen, an actress (born 12 September 1975).
Haukur was an athlete from 1946-51. At the age of 19, he made it to the sixth heat of the men's 100 metres at the 1948 London Summer Olympics. He also competed in the European Championships in Brussels in 1950, with Europe's best time (21.3 seconds) for the 200 metre sprint for 1950, and became Nordic Champion in the 200m sprint in 1947. He held a range of Icelandic records in athletics.
Haukur graduated from Menntaskólinn àReykjavÃÂk in 1948 and from the University of Iceland as a Candidate in Dentistry in 1952. He gained his dentistry license in 1952 and undertook his postgraduate studies at the University of Minnesota 1952-53. Returning to Iceland,he began his own practice, which he ran until July 1994, when he retired.
Haukur was the president of the Félag tannlæknanema (Student Dentists' Association) in 1951, and involved in the Tannlæknafélag ÃÂslands (Dentists' Association of Iceland) from 1972, acting in 1973-74 as deputy chair and 1974-76 as chair. He was on the board of the TannsmÃÂðaskóli 1979-83.
Haukur was keen on painting and held two exhibitions at Kjarvalsstaðir in 1981 and 1987.