Göran Backlund (born 11 July 1957) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. At the

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, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the C-1 500 m and C-1 1000 m events. Eight years later in

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, Backlund was eliminated in the semifinals of those same

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1957 births Canoeists at the 1976 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Living people Olympic canoeists for Sweden Swedish male canoeists 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-canoe-bio-stub