Ulla Stina Ljunggren, (3 August 1924 – 15 June 2017) was a

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. She competed in the women's artistic team all-around event at the

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, in London, where the Swedish team finished in the fourth place. Afterward, she became influential in promoting sport in Sweden.

Biography

Haage was born in

Landskrona Landskrona is a town in Scania, Sweden. Located on the shores of the Öresund, it occupies a natural port, which has lent the town at first military and subsequent commercial significance. Ferries operate from Landskrona to the island of Ven, an ...

in 1924. She had four siblings, and the family moved to

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when she was around 7. She enrolled at the

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in 1946 due to her interest in gymnastics and became qualified in physical education. In 1948, she competed at the

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, where she placed fourth in the team event with her Swedish teammates. In 1949, she married Olle Ljunggren. The couple had two children together and also often worked together. Between 1949 and 1954, they worked in physical education in Belgium, then returned to Sweden to work at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences. Between 1955 and 1977, Haage taught gymnastics and joined a number of sports-related organizations; she was on the board of the Swedish Gymnastics Association and became a brevet gymnastics judge. In 1972, she was elected to the board of the

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, the first woman to join the board. She held the position through the end of the 1980s. In 1977, she also became the director of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and was the first woman to hold that position as well. Her focuses as director included

sports science Sports science is a discipline that studies how the healthy human body works during exercise, and how sports and physical activity promote health and performance from cellular to whole body perspectives. The study of sports science traditionally i ...

and

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. Later in her career, she gained an interest in

parasports Parasports are sports played by people with a disability, including physical and intellectual disabilities. Some parasports are forms of adapted physical activities from existing non-disabled sports, while others have been specifically created f ...

and sports for children with impairments. She died in 2017 at the age of 92.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Haage, Stina 1924 births 2017 deaths Swedish female artistic gymnasts Olympic gymnasts for Sweden Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportswomen People from Landskrona

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