Inga Gentzel

{{short description|Swedish runner}}

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| caption = Inga Gentzel at the 1928 Olympics

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| birth_date = 24 April 1908

| birth_place = Stockholm, Sweden

| death_date = 1 January 1991 (aged 82)

| death_place = Nyköping, Sweden

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| sport = Athletics

| event = 100–1000 m

| pb = 200 m – 27.8 (1929)
800 m – 2:18.8e (1928)

| club = Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm

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{{MedalCountry | {{SWE}} }}

{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}

{{MedalBronze| 1928 Amsterdam | 800 m}}

{{MedalCompetition|Women's World Games}}

{{MedalSilver| 1926 Gothenburg | 1000 m}}

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Inga Kristina Gentzel (later Dahlgren, 24 April 1908 – 1 January 1991) was a Swedish runner who won a bronze medal in the 800 m at the 1928 Summer Olympics. Shortly before the Olympics, she set a new world record in this event, broken two weeks later, but remained a national record until 1943. Gentzel won the silver medal in the 1000 m at the 1926 Women's World Games.

Gentzel represented Djurgårdens IF.{{cite web | url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/75989 | title=Olympedia – Inga Gentzel }} She held Swedish titles in the 200 m in 1929 and the 800 m in 1928–31.

She worked as a piano teacher in Nyköping and often appeared on the Swedish radio as a member of the vocal group Trio Rita, together with Ulla Castegren and Anna-Lisa Cronström. She was a niece of the actor Ludde Gentzel.