Bo Gustafsson

Bo Gustafsson
Full name	Bo Henning Gustafsson
nation	Sweden
birthday	September 29, 1954
Career
discipline	Go
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 × European championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Olympic games silver Los Angeles 1984 50 km of walking  European championships bronze Athens 1982 50 km of walking

Bo Henning Gustafsson (born September 29, 1954 in Strömstad ) is a former Swedish walker .

At the European Athletics Championships in Prague in 1978 , Bo Gustafsson was tenth in the 20 km walk . At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow, he did not reach the finish line over 20 km (disqualification) or 50 km (abandonment). Gustafsson won his first medal at the 1982 European Championship when he finished third in the Athens heat over 50 km. Only eleven walkers out of 24 starters made it to the finish line, eleven others gave up and two were disqualified.

At the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles Gustafsson won over 50 km silver behind the Mexican Raúl González . While he did not finish at three world championships, he was able to take 7th place at the 1986 European Championship in Stuttgart and at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul.

Web links

• Bo Gustafsson in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Bo Gustafsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )