| Birth Date: | 5 August 1933 |
| Birth Place: | Landskrona, Sweden |
| Death Date: | 8 August 2007 (aged 74) |
| Sport: | Athletics |
| Event: | High jump |
| Club: | IF Kronan SoIK Hellas Södertälje IF |
| Pb: | 2.12 m (1958)[1] |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Richard Dahl (also known as Rickard Dahl; 5 August 1933 – 8 August 2007) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the high jump. His short-lived career was defined by a surprise win at the 1958 European Athletics Championships in a Swedish record of .
In 1957 Dahl won his first significant medal, a silver at the national championships behind Stig Pettersson, the leading Swedish jumper of the era. Both repeated that placing the following year.[2]
At the 1958 European Athletics Championships, held in Stockholm, Dahl set a Swedish record and championship record at, beating Jiří Lanský and Stig Pettersson.[3] He became the fourth, and thus the latest male Swede to win the title, following Kurt Lundqvist, Anton Bolinder and Bengt Nilsson.[4] For this performance he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal and designated the Stora grabbars märke number 200 in athletics.[5]
Dahl won two more international medals – a bronze at the 1959 International University Games (clearing two metres) and a silver at the inaugural Nordic Athletics Championships (where he lost to Petterssen by ten centimetres).[6] [7] His final achievement of note was a third place at the Swedish Championships in 1960. After retiring from competition, he became a sports journalist for the local paper Länstidningen Södertälje, and later for the regional Nordvästra Skånes Tidningar.[8]