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| Born | 28 April 1928 Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||
| Club | Stockholms KK | ||||||||||
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Karl Bengt Rask (born 28 April 1928) is a retired Swedish swimmer who won a bronze medal relay medals in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1950 European Aquatics Championships. [1] Two years later he competed in the same event at the 1952 Summer Olympics but was eliminated in the preliminaries. [2] [3]
Thomas Lars Wassberg is a Swedish former cross-country skier. A fast skating style – push for every leg – is still called "Wassberg" after him in several countries. Wassberg's skiing idols when growing up were Sixten Jernberg and Oddvar Brå. He has described his mental strength and physical fitness as his greatest abilities as a skier, with his main weakness being a lack of sprinting ability.
Sweden competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. 116 competitors, 99 men and 17 women, took part in 90 events in 16 sports.
The Sweden men's national handball team is controlled by the Swedish Handball Association. Its most successful periods were under coaches Curt Wadmark (1948–1967) and Bengt Johansson (1988–2004). The team under Bengt Johansson, nicknamed Bengan Boys in Sweden, is regarded as one of the finest national teams in the history of the sport with players like Tomas Svensson, Staffan Olsson, Magnus Wislander and Stefan Lövgren. From 1990 through 2002 the team reached the medal round in every championship and qualified for a record 8 championship finals in a row 1996–2002.
Bengt Eriksson was a Swedish nordic combined skier. He won an individual silver medal at the 1956 Winter Olympics and finished 10th at the 1960 Games. Between 1953 and 1966 he won eight national titles. He also competed nationally in association football and internationally in ski jumping, finishing 19th in the normal hill at the 1960 Olympics. In 1965 he was awarded the Holmenkollen medal, shared with Arto Tiainen and Arne Larsen.
Sweden competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, Germany. 171 competitors, 163 men and 8 women, took part in 84 events in 17 sports.
Bengt Christer Wallin is a former freestyle swimmer from Sweden. He won the silver medal in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the 1992 Summer Olympics together Tommy Werner, Anders Holmertz and Lars Frölander.
Bengt Gingsjö was a Swedish freestyle and medley swimmer, who competed in the 1972 Summer Olympics and 1976 Summer Olympics. He finished fourth on the 1500m freestyle in 1972. Gingsjö also won a bronze medal in the 400 m freestyle at the first FINA World Aquatics Championships in 1973.
Ulla Agneta Linnéa Mårtensson is a Swedish former freestyle swimmer. She won a silver medal in 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow along with Carina Ljungdahl, Tina Gustafsson and Agneta Eriksson. She also competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics.
Bengt Morberg was a Swedish gymnast who competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Swedish team that won the gold medal in the Swedish system event.
Bengt Valdemar Palmquist was a Swedish sailor who competed in the Dragon class at the 1956, 1960 and 1968 Olympics. He won a gold medal in 1956, finishing 20th and sixth in 1960 and 1968, respectively; he was the helmsman in 1960. In 1975 he won a world title in the same event sailing with his sons Björn and Johan.
Hans Bertil August Antonsson was a Swedish heavyweight wrestler. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling and won silver medals in 1948 and 1952. In 1956 he entered the Greco-Roman contest instead and finished fifth.
Bengt "Falan" Fahlqvist was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the freestyle light-heavyweight division in 1948 and finished sixth as a Greco-Roman heavyweight in 1952. He won the European freestyle title in 1946 by beating Fritz Stöckli in the final, but lost to Stöckli in the Olympic semifinal in 1948.
Bengt Olov Emanuel "Julle" Gustavsson was a Swedish professional footballer and manager. As player he participated in the final of the World Cup 1958 and won national championships with IFK Norrköping. As coach he led Åtvidabergs FF into its golden era at the beginning of the 1970s.
Elin Ann-Sofi Pettersson-Colling is a retired Swedish gymnast. She competed at the 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics and won a gold and a silver medal in the obsolete event team portable apparatus. In 1956, she also won a bronze on the vault, the only Swedish gymnast to win an individual Olympic medal.
Bengt Andersson is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds, two silvers, and a bronze.
Bengt Helge Ljungquist was a Swedish fencer, equestrian and military officer.
Bengt Nilsson was a Swedish high jumper. In 1954 he won the Swedish and European titles and set a European record at 2.11 m; later that year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.
Events from the year 1920 in Sweden
Fanny Rask is a Swedish ice hockey forward and member of the Swedish national team, currently playing in the Swedish Women's Hockey League (SDHL) with Djurgårdens IF Hockey Dam. She has represented Sweden in over 100 international matches, including the Winter Olympic Games in the 2014 and 2018 as well as at three IIHF Women's World Championships.
Karl Bengt Johansson was a Swedish flyweight wrestler. As a Greco-Roman wrestler he won a world title in 1950 and finished fifth at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In freestyle wrestling he won two bronze medals, at the 1949 European and 1951 world championships.
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