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Nils Skoglund

1906 - 1980

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Nils "Niklas" Skoglund (15 August 1906 – 1 January 1980) was a Swedish diver who won the silver medal in the plain high diving competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He still remains the youngest male Olympian to win a medal in an individual event, at 14 years, 11 days. After the Olympics Skoglund retired from diving and played water polo for his club Stockholms KK. His elder brother Erik competed in swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and the other brother Gunnar was a film actor. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nils Skoglund is the 1,028th most popular athlete (down from 964th in 2019), the 824th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 890th in 2019) and the 53rd most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Nils Skoglund ranks 1,028 out of 6,025. Before him are Akilles Järvinen, Charles Marion, Masaru Furukawa, Yurik Vardanyan, William Varley, and Hanns Braun. After him are Niger at the 2020 Summer Olympics#Judo, Burton Jastram, Gabriele Reinsch, Michael Marsh, Hjalmar Andersson, and Hartwig Gauder.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1906, Nils Skoglund ranks 318. Before him are Luis Marín, Ödön Zombori, Alexander Kazantsev, Károly Kárpáti, Alice Kober, and Harry Hopman. After him are Carl Benjamin Boyer, Iosif Czako, Carl-Erik Holmberg, Thelma Todd, Abdylas Maldybaev, and Irving Jaffee. Among people deceased in 1980, Nils Skoglund ranks 233. Before him are Jadwiga Jędrzejowska, Anna Jantar, László Szollás, Isabel Briggs Myers, Uttam Kumar, and Willi Forst. After him are Marin Preda, Adolph Deutsch, Nikos Xilouris, Joseph Banks Rhine, James Smith McDonnell, and Muriel Freeman.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Nils Skoglund ranks 824 out of 1,879. Before him are Inger Berggren (1934), Birger Rosengren (1917), Tim Sköld (1966), Gösta Löfgren (1923), Esbjörn Svensson (1964), and Stig Sollander (1926). After him are May-Louise Flodin (1934), Alf Kjellin (1920), Glenn Hysén (1959), Nils Östensson (1918), Ulrika Pasch (1735), and Hugo Jahnke (1886).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Nils Skoglund ranks 53. Before him are Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Georg Åberg (1893), Birger Sörvik (1879), Hugo Wieslander (1889), Gunnar Lindström (1896), and Ingemar Johansson (1924). After him are Hjalmar Andersson (1889), Arvid Knöppel (1867), Bengt Eriksson (1931), Axel Norling (1884), Sven Fahlman (1914), and Gunder Hägg (1918).

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