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Kjell-Åke Lennart "Sörmarkarn" Nilsson is a retired Swedish high jumper. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics and at the 1966 European Athletics Championships and finished in seventh, sixth and eighth place, respectively. Nilsson won a bronze medal at the 1966 European Indoor Games and became a Swedish champion outdoors in 1963 and indoors in 1966.
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- ↑ "Kjell Jacobsson". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 10 February 2016.
