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 |
Show-Medals: | yes |
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.