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Lennart Klingström

1916 - 1994

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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. 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). Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Lennart Klingström is the 1,246th most popular athlete (up from 1,354th in 2019), the 894th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 1,012th in 2019) and the 64th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Lennart Klingström ranks 1,246 out of 6,025. Before him are Fred Hansen, Patrik Sjöberg, Perikles Kakousis, Bud Houser, Clyde King, and Tommy Green. After him are Yrjö Hietanen, Kōkichi Tsuburaya, Heinz Ulzheimer, Tullio Baraglia, Jadwiga Wajs, and Duvall Hecht.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Lennart Klingström ranks 244. Before him are Karen Lachmann, Helene Hanff, Ondina Valla, Milton Babbitt, Karl-Birger Blomdahl, and David Brown. After him are Toni Branca, Roy Ward Baker, Dorothy Cheney, Julien Darui, Ken Wharton, and Gaylord Nelson. Among people deceased in 1994, Lennart Klingström ranks 279. Before him are Julio Ramón Ribeyro, Jay Miner, Serge Blusson, Dack Rambo, Charles Mathiesen, and Bud Houser. After him are Ernst Lörtscher, Antal Kocsis, Ira Murchison, Alfredo Pérez, Luis Donaldo Colosio, and Jacques Dimont.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Lennart Klingström ranks 894 out of 1,879. Before him are Egon Jönsson (1921), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), Erik Pettersson (1944), Staffan Tapper (1948), Jan Boklöv (1966), and Hjördis Nordin (1932). After him are Ingvar Gärd (1921), Ferdinand Boberg (1860), Ola Rapace (1971), Gunnar Larsson (1951), Anders Tegnell (1956), and Per Berlin (1921).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Lennart Klingström ranks 64. Before him are Sven Fahlman (1914), Gunder Hägg (1918), Carl Silfverstrand (1885), Ragnar Lundberg (1924), Britt Strandberg (1934), and Patrik Sjöberg (1965). After him are Per Berlin (1921), Nils Täpp (1917), Carl von Essen (1940), Hans Berglund (1918), Tore Eriksson (1937), and Harald Julin (1890).

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