Lennart Klingström
Swedish canoeist (1916–1994)
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Full name | Lennart Klas Valdemar Klingström | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 18 April 1916 Österåker, Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 5 July 1994 (aged 78) Danderyd, Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Canoe racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Brunnsvikens Kanotklubb, Stockholm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lennart Klas Valdemar Klingström (18 April 1916 – 5 July 1994) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the gold in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.[1][2]
Klingström also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4×500 m: 1948, 1950; K-4 1000 m: 1948) and a silver (K-1 500 m: 1950).[1][2]
References
- ^ a b Lennart Klingström. Sports-reference.com
- ^ a b Lennart Klingström. Swedish Olympic Committee
- Kamber, Raymond, ed. (2008). "Medal Winners – Olympic Games and World Championships (1936–2007)" (PDF). CanoeICF.com. International Canoe Federation. pp. 1–83. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 May 2018.
External links
- Lennart Klingström at Olympedia
- Lennart Klingström at Olympics.com
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Olympic Kayaking Champions in Men's K-2 1000 m
- 1936:
Adolf Kainz / Alfons Dorfner (AUT)
- 1948:
Hans Berglund / Lennart Klingström (SWE)
- 1952:
Kurt Wires / Yrjö Hietanen (FIN)
- 1956:
Michel Scheuer / Meinrad Miltenberger (EUA)
- 1960:
Gert Fredriksson / Sven-Olov Sjödelius (SWE)
- 1964:
Sven-Olov Sjödelius / Gunnar Utterberg (SWE)
- 1968:
Aleksandr Shaparenko / Vladimir Morozov (URS)
- 1972:
Nikolai Gorbachev / Viktor Kratasyuk (URS)
- 1976:
Serhei Nahorny / Vladimir Romanovsky (URS)
- 1980:
Vladimir Parfenovich / Sergei Chukhray (URS)
- 1984:
Hugh Fisher / Alwyn Morris (CAN)
- 1988:
Greg Barton / Norman Bellingham (USA)
- 1992:
Kay Bluhm / Torsten Gutsche (GER)
- 1996:
Daniele Scarpa / Antonio Rossi (ITA)
- 2000:
Antonio Rossi / Beniamino Bonomi (ITA)
- 2004:
Markus Oscarsson / Henrik Nilsson (SWE)
- 2008:
Andreas Ihle / Martin Hollstein (GER)
- 2012:
Rudolf Dombi / Roland Kökény (HUN)
- 2016:
Max Rendschmidt / Marcus Gross (GER)
- 2020:
Jean van der Westhuyzen / Thomas Green (AUS)
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