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Bo Ekelund

1894 - 1983

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Bo Daniel Ekelund (26 July 1894 – 1 April 1983) was a Swedish high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Ekelund was a top Scandinavian high jumper in the late 1910s. He won the Swedish Games with a jump of 1.85 m in 1916, the Scandinavian triangular meet in 1919, and Swedish national titles in 1919 and 1920. In September 1919 he set a new Scandinavian record at 1.93 m, which was the world's best jump in 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bo Ekelund is the 860th most popular athlete (up from 1,558th in 2019), the 768th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,085th in 2019) and the 44th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bo Ekelund ranks 860 out of 6,025. Before him are Ernst Schultz, Edwin Hedley, Adalberts Bubenko, Team Hoyt, Arthur Russell, and Urho Peltonen. After him are Tom Daley, Irma Johansson, Maria Sander, K. D. Jadhav, Aimé Haegeman, and Norbert Schemansky.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Bo Ekelund ranks 200. Before him are Bevil Rudd, Nick Winter, Vitaly Bianki, Bill Johnston, Hans Henny Jahnn, and Arkady Fiedler. After him are Jean Debucourt, Abram Room, Paul Costello, Pelageya Shajn, Estelle Taylor, and Paul Peter Meouchi. Among people deceased in 1983, Bo Ekelund ranks 195. Before him are Otto Heckmann, Szolem Mandelbrojt, James Workman, Sven Jacobsson, Adalberts Bubenko, and Paolo Pedretti. After him are Sabino Bilbao, Slim Pickens, Edward Lawry Norton, Mordecai Kaplan, Earl Tupper, and Nikolaus Pevsner.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bo Ekelund ranks 768 out of 1,879. Before him are Victor Hasselblad (1906), Barbro Lindgren (1937), Astrid Cleve (1875), Bertha Valerius (1824), Sven Jacobsson (1914), and Stellan Bengtsson (1952). After him are Irma Johansson (1932), Carl Frederik von Breda (1759), Harald Cramér (1893), Karin Dreijer (1975), Carl Folcker (1889), and Glenn Strömberg (1960).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Bo Ekelund ranks 44. Before him are John Svanberg (1881), William Grut (1914), John Eke (1886), Hjalmar Johansson (1874), Magdalena Forsberg (1967), and Gösta Andersson (1917). After him are Irma Johansson (1932), Gustaf Weidel (1890), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Georg Åberg (1893), Birger Sörvik (1879), and Hugo Wieslander (1889).

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