Boo Ahl

{{Short description|Swedish ice hockey goaltender (1969–2024)}}

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| ntl_team = SWE

| birth_date = {{birth date|1969|10|05|df=y}}

| birth_place = Jönköping, Sweden

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| death_place = Moskenes, Norway

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Boo Ahl (5 October 1969 – 8 August 2024) was a Swedish ice hockey goaltender.

Career

A goaltender for the club HV71, Ahl won national titles in 1995 and 2004. With the Sweden men's national ice hockey team, he won a silver medal at the 1995 Men's Ice Hockey World Championships.

Personal life and death

Born in Jönköping on 5 October 1969, Boo Ahl was the father of Filip Ahl.{{cite news |title=Farsan och grabben |first=Hans |last=Abrahamsson |date=1 January 2017 |url=https://www.aftonbladet.se/sportbladet/hockey/a/Ayerx/farsan-och-grabben |website=aftonbladet.se |language=sv |access-date=13 August 2024}}

He died from cardiac arrest on the mountain of Reinebringen in Moskenes, Norway, on 8 August 2024. He was 54.https://www.familjesidan.se/cases/c78a23de-4b33-498f-af4a-805f6187573c/funeral-notices{{cite news |title=Døde på ferie i Norge |first=Bendik |last=Rise |first2=Joachim |last2=Remvik |date=12 August 2024 |url=https://www.dagbladet.no/sport/dode-pa-ferie-i-norge/81781446 |website=dagbladet.no |language=no |access-date=13 August 2024}}{{cite news |title=Svensk ishockeyhelt døde på ferie i Norge |first= |last= |date=12 August 2024 |url=https://www.nrk.no/sport/svensk-ishockeyhelt-dode-pa-ferie-i-norge-1.16999862 |website=nrk.no |language=no |access-date=13 August 2024}}{{cite news |title=Målvaktsikonen Boo Ahl är död – blev 54 år |first= |last= |date=9 August 2024 |url=https://www.svt.se/sport/ishockey/malvaktsikonen-boo-ahl-ar-dod-blev-54-ar |website=svt.se |language=sv |access-date=13 August 2024}} https://www.ratsit.se/19691005-Boo_Hans_Ahl_Jonkoping/hFmA14jzfWWvNGvXe-kvFoCNRg-GFoWkpmcCxa9-grA

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