Kent Larsson

{{Short description|Swedish athlete}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1963|06|10|df=y}}

| birth_place = Östersund, Sweden

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| weight = {{convert|102|kg|lb|abbr=on}}

| sport = Athletics

| event = Shot put

| club = IF Castor
KA2 IF
Spårvägens FK
Trångsvikens IF
Upsala IF

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Kent Erik Larsson (born 10 June 1963) is a retired Swedish athlete who specialised in the shot put.{{World Athletics}} He represented his country at the 1992 and 1996 Summer Olympics as well as one indoor and three outdoor World Championships.

Born in Östersund, he discovered athletics through school competitions and started his career in the club IF Castor. He won his first Swedish championship in 1987, and also set his career best at the Swedish championships of 1992 – but also achieved 20,02 in New York in 1994. Larsson trained with a fellow Östersund man, Henrik Wennberg, and the two also represented the club KA2. Larsson also competed for Spårvägens FK and Trångsvikens IF before reuniting with Wennberg in Upsala IF. Larsson resided in Uppsala for 13 years before migrating to Florida.{{cite news|title=Barndomskompisarna nådde OS, VM och EM|last=Andersson|first=Hans|date=1 June 2020|work=Östersunds-Posten|pages=16–17|language=sv}}

His personal bests in the event are 20.03 metres outdoors (Kvarnsveden 1993) and 18.42 metres indoors (Genoa 1992).