Lennart Atterwall
{{Short description|Swedish javelin thrower (1911–2001)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2015}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2025}}
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|birth_date= 26 March 1911
|birth_place= Perstorp, Sweden
| death_date = 23 April 2001 (aged 90)
| death_place = Sjöbo, Sweden
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| weight = {{convert|86|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
|sport=Athletics
|event=Javelin throw, decathlon
|club=IFK Knislinge
|pb=JT – 75.10 m (1937)
Dec – 6268 (1940)
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Lennart Folke Alfons Atterwall (born Ohlsson, 26 March 1911 – 23 April 2001) was a Swedish javelin thrower who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.
Biography
Atterwall won the British AAA Championships title in the javelin throw event at the 1935 AAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000681/19350713/349/0018 |title=AAA titles |work=Daily Herald |date=13 July 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000653/19350713/216/0008 |title=Lovelock Beaten in Mile |work=Sports Argus |date=13 July 1935 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=16 January 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=16 January 2025 }}
At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, Atterwall finished fourth in the javelin.{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/76055 |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=16 January 2025}}
He won the European title in 1946. Atterwall held Swedish titles in the javelin throw (1934–35, 37–41 and 1946), pentathlon (1937) and decathlon (1940).
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Category:Swedish male javelin throwers
Category:Olympic athletes for Sweden
Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Category:European Athletics Championships medalists
Category:20th-century Swedish sportsmen
Category:People from Perstorp Municipality
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