Lennart Back
Appearance
![]() Back circa 1960 | |||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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Born | Ellenö , Färgelanda, Sweden | 28 May 1933||||||||||||||
Died | 1 August 2022 | (aged 89)||||||||||||||
Height | 180 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 68 kg (150 lb) | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Racewalking | ||||||||||||||
Event | 20 km walk | ||||||||||||||
Club | Uddevalla Cykelamatörer | ||||||||||||||
Achievements and titles | |||||||||||||||
Personal best | 1:31:13 (1962)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Torsten Lennart Back (28 May 1933 – 1 August 2022)[2] was a Swedish race walker. He won a bronze medal in the 20 km event at the 1958 European Championships and finished sixth at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1][3]
He was the silver medallist at the inaugural 1961 IAAF World Race Walking Cup and represented Sweden again at that competition in 1963, 1965 and 1970 (though not winning a medal those times).[4]
References
- ^ a b Lennart Back. sports-reference.com
- ^ Lennart Back död (in Swedish)
- ^ Lennart Back. Swedish Olympic Committee
- ^ World and Continental Race Walking Cups. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 20 February 2016.
Categories:
- 1933 births
- 2022 deaths
- People from Färgelanda Municipality
- Swedish male racewalkers
- Olympic athletes for Sweden
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- European Athletics Championships medalists
- Athletes from Västra Götaland County
- 20th-century Swedish sportsmen
- 21st-century Swedish people
- Swedish athletics biography stubs