Bengt Nilsson (athlete)
Swedish high jumper
Bengt Nilsson in the 1950s | ||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||
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Born | (1934-02-17)17 February 1934 Härnösand, Sweden | |||||||||||
Died | 11 May 2018(2018-05-11) (aged 84) Solna, Sweden | |||||||||||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||
Weight | 67 kg (148 lb) | |||||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||||
Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||
Event | High jump | |||||||||||
Club | Westermalms IF | |||||||||||
Achievements and titles | ||||||||||||
Personal best | 2.114 m (1954)[1] | |||||||||||
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Bengt Nilsson (17 February 1934 – 11 May 2018[2]) was a Swedish high jumper. In 1954 he won the Swedish and European titles and set a European record at 2.11 m; later that year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal.[3]
Nilsson got injured at the 1956 Summer Olympics and finished only 26th.[4] He retired from athletics shortly thereafter.[3]
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European Athletics Championships champions in men's high jump
- 1934: Kalevi Kotkas (FIN)
- 1938: Kurt Lundqvist (SWE)
- 1946: Anton Bolinder (SWE)
- 1950: Alan Paterson (GBR)
- 1954: Bengt Nilsson (SWE)
- 1958: Richard Dahl (SWE)
- 1962: Valeriy Brumel (URS)
- 1966: Jacques Madubost (FRA)
- 1969: Valentin Gavrilov (URS)
- 1971: Kęstutis Šapka (URS)
- 1974: Jesper Tørring (DEN)
- 1978: Vladimir Yashchenko (URS)
- 1982: Dietmar Mögenburg (FRG)
- 1986: Igor Paklin (URS)
- 1990: Dragutin Topić (YUG)
- 1994: Steinar Hoen (NOR)
- 1998: Artur Partyka (POL)
- 2002: Yaroslav Rybakov (RUS)
- 2006: Andrey Silnov (RUS)
- 2010: Aleksandr Shustov (RUS)
- 2012: Robbie Grabarz (GBR)
- 2014: Bohdan Bondarenko (UKR)
- 2016: Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)
- 2018: Mateusz Przybylko (GER)
- 2022: Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)
- 2024: Gianmarco Tamberi (ITA)
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