Jan Boklöv

{{short description|Swedish ski jumper}}

{{Infobox skier

| name = Jan Boklöv

| image =

| fullname = Jan Mauritz Boklöv

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1966|4|14|df=y}}

| birth_place = Koskullskulle, Gällivare, Sweden

| height = 1.68 m

| personalbest =

| seasons = 1985–1993

| wins = 5

| totalpodiums = 11

| wcoveralls = 1 (1989)

| updated = 23 June 2015

}}

Jan Mauritz Boklöv (born 14 April 1966) is a Swedish former ski jumper who won the 1988–89 World Cup season. He also dominated the Swedish national championships during the late 1980s and early 1990s.{{cite web|url=http://www.skidor.com/Foljoss/Historikochstatistik/Svenskamastare/BackeNordiskkombination/|title=Backe/Nordisk kombination|publisher=Swedish Skiing Association|language=sv|access-date=22 January 2015|archive-date=24 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324100411/http://www.skidor.com/Foljoss/Historikochstatistik/Svenskamastare/BackeNordiskkombination/|url-status=dead}} He is best known for popularising the now-ubiquitous V-style in the late 1980s and early 1990s.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/ski-jumping-equipment-and-history|title=Ski Jumping Equipment And History|publisher=The International Olympic Committee|access-date=22 March 2021}}

Kurt Elimä was one of Boklöv's trainers. Boklöv competed in two Winter Olympics, finishing seventh in the team large hill event in Calgary in 1988 and 47th in the individual normal hill in Albertville in 1992. At the 1989 Ski Jumping World Championships in Lahti, he finished fifth in the team large hill and tenth in the individual normal hill events. At the 1990 Ski Flying World Championships in Vikersund, Boklöv finished 27th.

In 1989 he was the recipient of the Jerringpriset, a prize for the best sports performance of the year by a Swedish athlete, as voted for by the radio audience of Radiosporten.

During the early 2000s he lived in Luxembourg.,{{cite web|url=http://wwwc.aftonbladet.se/sport/0012/13/legend.html|title=Här är Sveriges 38 största legendarer|publisher=Sportbladet|language=sv|date=13 December 2000|access-date=8 April 2016}} and as of 2016, he is living in Brussels together with his family.