Bo Ljungberg
{{Short description|Swedish athletics competitor}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}}
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|birth_date= 21 November 1911
|birth_place=Stoby, Sweden
| death_date = 19 March 1984 (aged 72)
| death_place = Jönköping, Sweden
| height = {{convert|1.83|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|77|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport=Athletics
|event= Pole vault, triple jump
|club= Malmö AI
|pb= PV – 4.15 m (1935)
TJ – 14.73 m (1934)
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{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalSilver|1934 Turin|Pole vault}}
{{MedalSilver|1938 Paris|Pole vault}}
{{MedalCompetition|International University Games}}
{{MedalGold|1933 Turin|Pole vault}}
{{MedalBronze|1939 Vienna|Pole vault}}
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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.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lj/bo-ljungberg-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417210350/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lj/bo-ljungberg-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Bo Ljungberg Bio, Stats and Results |accessdate=19 April 2014 |publisher=Sports Reference LLC}}
Career
Bo Ljungberg won gold in the pole vault at the 1933 International University Games in Turin, clearing 3.90 m.{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/wsg.htm |title=World Student Games (Pre-Universiade) |publisher=Athletics Weekly |accessdate=19 April 2014}} At the following year's European Championships, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's Gustav Wegner;{{cite web |url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/ic/ec.htm |title=European Championships (Men) |publisher=Athletics Weekly |accessdate=19 April 2014}} he also competed in the triple jump, placing 8th with 14.01 m.{{tilastopaja|id=76990}}
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. At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more. In 1939 he won a second International University Games medal, clearing 3.90 m for third place.
Ljungberg set his personal pole vault best, 4.15 m, in 1935, breaking Henry Lindblad's Swedish record of 4.13 m from the 1931 Finnkampen.{{cite book |title=Huippu-urheilun historia |year=1935 |publisher=Werner Söderström Osakeyhtiö |author=Jukola, Martti |language=Finnish}} The new record lasted until 1946, when Lars Andrén cleared 4.16 m.{{cite web |url=http://www.st.nu/sport/st-pokalen-fyller-70-ar |publisher=Sundsvalls Tidning |language=Swedish |title=ST-pokalen fyller 70 år |date=7 November 2010 |accessdate=19 April 2014}} Ljungberg's personal best in the triple jump was 14.73 m from 1934.
References
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External links
- [http://trackfield.brinkster.net/Profile.asp?ID=3976&Gender=M Profile]
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Category:People from Hässleholm Municipality
Category:Swedish male pole vaulters
Category:Swedish male triple jumpers
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic athletes for Sweden
Category:European Athletics Championships medalists
Category:Athletes from Skåne County
Category:20th-century Swedish sportsmen
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