Erik Lundqvist

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Erik Lundkvist. Amsterdam 1928

Erik Hjalmar Lundqvist (born June 29, 1908 in Grängesberg , Ludvika municipality , † January 7, 1963 ibid) was a Swedish athlete who was active as a javelin thrower around 1930. He was the first javelin thrower to exceed the 70-meter mark.

Career

At the VIII Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 , he won the gold medal with 66.60 m, ahead of the Hungarian Béla Szepes (65.26 m) and the Norwegian Olav Sunde (63.97 m).

After his best performance of 62.70 m in 1927, he climbed to 71.01 m in the 1928 Olympic year and thus improved the world record of the Finn Eino Penttilä by more than a meter. This achievement was surpassed as a world record two years later by the Finn Matti Järvinen , who improved him to 71.57 m. As the Swedish national record, however, it lasted much longer: Lennart Atterwall only improved it to 71.72 m in 1936 . Also in 1928 Lundqvist won his only Swedish championship with 67.39 m. On the IX. He did not take part in the 1932 Olympic Games in Los Angeles , but with a performance of 65.95 m he was still in 10th place on the world's best list of the year.

Erik Lundqvist started for the IFK Grängesberg .

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SURNAME Lundqvist, Erik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lundqvist, Erik Hjalmar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish athlete
DATE OF BIRTH June 29, 1908
PLACE OF BIRTH Grängesberg, Ludvika (municipality)
DATE OF DEATH 7th January 1963
Place of death Grängesberg, Ludvika (municipality)