Björn Barrefors

Björn Barrefors is a Swedish decathlete and heptathlete. He attended and competed for the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in Lincoln, Nebraska. Barrefors was a four time first team NCAA All-America athlete, gaining the honor twice in the outdoor decathlon and twice for the indoor heptathlon.
Barrefors was the University of Nebraska's 2013 male student-athlete of the year and is the only four-time academic Academic All-American in the institution of higher learning's history. Of those rare four academic all-American honors, he was a three-time first-team academic all-American with fellow teammate and academic great . Barrefors joins three others in this feat: Karen Jennings,, and Sarah Pavan. He graduated from the University on May 4, 2013, with a master's degree in computer science.