Bengt Fahlqvist Explained

Birth Date:15 April 1922
Birth Place:Helgesta, Sweden
Death Date:7 March 2004 (aged 81)
Death Place:Katrineholm, Sweden
Sport:Freestyle wrestling
Club:Huddinge BK
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Bengt "Falan" Fahlqvist (also spelled Fahlkvist, 15 April 1922 – 7 March 2004) was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the freestyle light-heavyweight division in 1948 and finished sixth as a Greco-Roman heavyweight in 1952. He won the European freestyle title in 1946 by beating Fritz Stöckli in the final, but lost to Stöckli in the Olympic semifinal in 1948.