Åke Stenqvist
Åke Valter Stenqvist (born January 31, 1914 in Stockholm ; † August 12, 2006 there ) was a Swedish athlete . The greatest success of the long jumper was a silver medal with the sprint relay at the European Championships in 1938.
In 1936 at the Olympic Games in Berlin , Stenqvist qualified for the final in the long jump , where he finished tenth with 7.30 meters. As a member of the Swedish 4 x 100 meter relay , he narrowly missed the finals. With 41.5 seconds, the Swedes set the same time as the Canadians, but after the judges' decision, the Canadians were seen just ahead and advanced to the final.
At the European Championships in Paris in 1938 , Stenqvist only finished eleventh in the long jump with 7.01 meters. The season with the cast Gösta Klemming , Åke Stenqvist, Lennart Lindgren and Lennart Strandberg qualified for the final in 42.0 seconds just ahead of the French. There the Swedes climbed to 41.1 seconds and won silver behind the German relay, but were just ahead of the British.
With a competition weight of 76 kg and a height of 1.81 m, the very strong jumper was Swedish champion in long jump from 1935 to 1938 and from 1940 to 1942. From 1940 to 1942 he also won three championship titles in pentathlon .
Top performances
- 100 meters: 10.7 seconds (1938)
- 200 meters: 21.8 seconds (1938)
- 400 meters: 49.6 seconds (1938)
- Long jump: 7.47 meters (1937)
literature
- Peter Matthews (Ed.): Athletics 2007. SportsBooks, Cheltenham 2007, ISBN 978-1-899807-49-9 .
- Ekkehard zur Megede: The Modern Olympic Century 1896-1996 Track and Field Athletics. German Society for Athletics Documentation eV, Neuss 1999.
Web links
- Åke Stenqvist in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stenqvist, Åke |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Stenqvist, Åke Valter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swedish athlete |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 31, 1914 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Stockholm |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 2006 |
| Place of death | Stockholm |