Bengt Fahlqvist
Appearance
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Born | 15 April 1922 Helgesta, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 7 March 2004 (aged 81) Katrineholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Huddinge BK | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Bengt "Falan" Fahlqvist (also spelled Fahlkvist, 15 April 1922 – 7 March 2004) was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the freestyle light-heavyweight division in 1948 and finished sixth as a Greco-Roman heavyweight in 1952. He won the European freestyle title in 1946 by beating Fritz Stöckli in the final, but lost to Stöckli in the Olympic semifinal in 1948.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Bengt Fahlkvist". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016.
- ^ "Bengt Fahlkvist". Swedish Olympic Committee.
External links
[edit]- Bengt Fahlkvist at the International Wrestling Database
- Bengt Fahlkvist at Olympics.com
- Bengt Fahlkvist at Olympedia (archive)
- Bengt Fahlkvist at the Sveriges Olympiska Kommitté (in Swedish) (English translation)
- Media related to Bengt Fahlqvist at Wikimedia Commons
Categories:
- 1922 births
- 2004 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for Sweden
- Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Swedish male sport wrestlers
- Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Swedish sportsmen
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs
- Swedish sport wrestler stubs