Åke Ödmark Explained

Birth Date:29 October 1916
Birth Place:Strömsund, Sweden
Death Date:4 September 1994 (aged 77)
Death Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Height:1.89m (06.2feet)
Weight:73kg (161lb)
Sport:Athletics
Event:High jump
Club:IFK Strömsund
Pb:2.008 (1941)
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Åke Ödmark (29 October 1916 – 4 September 1994) was a Swedish high jumper. He finished 12th at the 1936 Summer Olympics and fourth at the 1938 European Athletics Championships. Aged 19 he was the youngest participant from Sweden at the 1936 Games. Ödmark won the Swedish title in 1939 and 1940, and in 1941 became the first Swede to clear the 2.00 m height in an official competition.