Bo_Ljungberg
Bo Ljungberg
Swedish athletics competitor
Bo Alexander Ljungberg (21 November 1911 – 19 March 1984) was a Swedish athlete. He won two silver medals in the pole vault at the European Championships and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics as both a pole vaulter and a triple jumper.[1]
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| Born | 21 November 1911 Stoby, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 19 March 1984 (aged 72) Jönköping, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Pole vault, triple jump | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Malmö AI | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Personal best(s) | PV – 4.15 m (1935) TJ – 14.73 m (1934) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bo Ljungberg won gold in the pole vault at the 1933 International University Games in Turin, clearing 3.90 m.[2] At the following year's European Championships, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's Gustav Wegner;[3] he also competed in the triple jump, placing 8th with 14.01 m.[4]
He also took part in both events at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; in the triple jump he managed 14.35 m and placed eighteenth, while in the pole vault he again cleared 4.00 m and shared sixth place with ten others.[1] At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more.[2][4] In 1939 he won a second International University Games medal, clearing 3.90 m for third place.[2]
Ljungberg set his personal pole vault best, 4.15 m, in 1935,[1] breaking Henry Lindblad's Swedish record of 4.13 m from the 1931 Finnkampen.[5] The new record lasted until 1946, when Lars Andrén cleared 4.16 m.[6] Ljungberg's personal best in the triple jump was 14.73 m from 1934.[1]
- "Bo Ljungberg Bio, Stats and Results". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- "World Student Games (Pre-Universiade)". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- "European Championships (Men)". Athletics Weekly. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
- Bo Ljungberg at Tilastopaja (registration required)
- Jukola, Martti (1935). Huippu-urheilun historia (in Finnish). Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö.
- "ST-pokalen fyller 70 år" (in Swedish). Sundsvalls Tidning. 7 November 2010. Retrieved 19 April 2014.
