Edgar Lindenau Aabye (14 September 1865 – 30 April 1941) was a Danish athlete and journalist who earned a gold medal in the tug of war at the age of 34 in the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris, France,[1] after joining the team as a last-minute substitute.

Aabye was an accomplished athlete who had previously won a Danish championship in swimming (1896) and been a competitor in rowing and cycling.

Initially, Aabye was not a member of the tug-of-war team but was working at the Paris Olympics as a journalist for the Politiken newspaper.

[4] He was the nation's first sports journalist as he worked for the broadsheet Politiken from 1892 until 1935.

He had previously studied theology and taught history and geography at a middle school.