Bo Ljungberg Explained

Birth Date:21 November 1911
Birth Place:Stoby, Sweden
Death Date:19 March 1984 (aged 72)
Death Place:Jönköping, Sweden
Height:1.83m (06feet)
Weight:77kg (170lb)
Sport:Athletics
Event:Pole vault, triple jump
Club:Malmö AI
Pb:PV – 4.15 m (1935)
TJ – 14.73 m (1934)
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Bo Alexander Ljungberg (21 November 1911 – 19 March 1984) was a Swedish athlete. He won two silver medals in the pole vault at the European Championships and competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics as both a pole vaulter and a triple jumper.[1]

Career

Bo Ljungberg won gold in the pole vault at the 1933 International University Games in Turin, clearing 3.90 m.[2] At the following year's European Championships, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's Gustav Wegner;[3] he also competed in the triple jump, placing 8th with 14.01 m.

He also took part in both events at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; in the triple jump he managed 14.35 m and placed eighteenth, while in the pole vault he again cleared 4.00 m and shared sixth place with ten others.[1] At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more.[2] In 1939 he won a second International University Games medal, clearing 3.90 m for third place.[2]

Ljungberg set his personal pole vault best, 4.15 m, in 1935,[1] breaking Henry Lindblad's Swedish record of 4.13 m from the 1931 Finnkampen.[4] The new record lasted until 1946, when Lars Andrén cleared 4.16 m.[5] Ljungberg's personal best in the triple jump was 14.73 m from 1934.[1]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Bo Ljungberg Bio, Stats and Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200417210350/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/lj/bo-ljungberg-1.html . dead . 17 April 2020 . 19 April 2014 . Sports Reference LLC.
  2. Web site: World Student Games (Pre-Universiade) . . 19 April 2014.
  3. Web site: European Championships (Men) . Athletics Weekly . 19 April 2014.
  4. Book: Huippu-urheilun historia . 1935 . . Jukola, Martti . Finnish.
  5. Web site: ST-pokalen fyller 70 år . Sundsvalls Tidning . Swedish . 7 November 2010 . 19 April 2014.