Bo Alexander Ljungberg (21 November 1911 – 19 March 1984) was a

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. He won two silver medals in the

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at the

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and competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics ( German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad ( German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi- ...

as both a pole vaulter and a

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er.

Career

Bo Ljungberg won gold in the

at the

1933 International University Games The 1933 International University Games were organised by the Confederation Internationale des Etudiants (CIE) and held in Turin, Italy. Held from 1–10 September, 27 nations competed in nine sports. Women competed only in the athletics, swimming ...

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, clearing 3.90 m. At the following year's

, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's

Gustav Wegner Gustav Wegner (4 January 1903 – 7 June 1942) was a German track and field athlete who competed in the pole vault and the decathlon. He was the first ever European Athletics Championships, European champion in the pole vault and the first German ...

; 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

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; in the

he managed 14.35 m and placed eighteenth, while in the

he again cleared 4.00 m and shared sixth place with ten others. At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more. In

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he won a second International University Games medal, clearing 3.90 m for third place. Ljungberg set his personal pole vault best, 4.15 m, in 1935, breaking

Henry Lindblad Bror Henry Lindblad (25 February 1906 – 28 September 1946) was a Swedish pole vaulter and decathlete. The first Swede to vault four metres or more, he was Swedish pole vault champion seven times and AAA champion three times. At the 1928 Summer ...

's Swedish record of 4.13 m from the 1931 Finnkampen. The new record lasted until 1946, when Lars Andrén cleared 4.16 m. Ljungberg's personal best in the triple jump was 14.73 m from 1934.

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1911 births 1984 deaths People from Hässleholm Municipality Swedish male pole vaulters Swedish male triple jumpers Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for Sweden European Athletics Championships medalists Sportspeople from Skåne County Malmö AI athletes {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub