Erik Lundqvist
From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
File:Erik Lundqvist 1928.jpg
Erik Lundqvist at the 1928 Olympics
|
||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Born | 29 June 1908 Grängesberg, Sweden |
|||||||||
Died | 7 January 1963 (aged 54) Grängesberg, Sweden |
|||||||||
Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) | |||||||||
Sport | ||||||||||
Sport | Javelin throw | |||||||||
Club | IFK Grängesberg | |||||||||
Medal record
|
Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist (29 June 1908 – 7 January 1963) was a Swedish athlete who won a gold medal in the javelin throw at the 1928 Summer Olympics.[1] Two weeks later he became the first man two break the 70 m barrier, setting a new world record at 71.01 m.[2]
References
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]]. |
- ↑ Erik Lundqvist. sports-reference.com
- ↑ Athletics at the 1928 Amsterdam Summer Games: Men's Javelin Throw. sports-reference.com
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>
Categories:
- Use dmy dates from March 2014
- Pages with broken file links
- Commons category link from Wikidata
- Swedish javelin throwers
- Olympic gold medalists for Sweden
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic athletes of Sweden
- 1908 births
- 1963 deaths
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Swedish athletics biography stubs
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs