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Lennart Hedmark

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Lennart Hedmark
Hedmark in 1964
Personal information
Born 18 May 1944  ( 1944-05-18 ) (age  80)
Skelleftea , Sweden
Height 195 cm (6 ft 5 in)
Weight 90 kg (198 lb)
Sport
Sport Athletics
Event Decathlon
Club Skelleftea AIK
Medal record
Representing   Sweden
Universiade
Silver medal – second place 1970 Turin Decathlon
Bronze medal – third place 1965 Budapest Javelin throw
European Championships
Silver medal – second place 1971 Helsinki Decathlon

Lennart Per-Olav Hedmark (born 18 May 1944) is a retired Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the decathlon . He represented his country at the 1968, 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics with the best result of eighth place in 1976. [1]

He started his career as a javelin throw specialist and claimed three straight titles in the event at the Swedish Championships from 1963 to 1965. [2] He was selected to compete at the 1964 Summer Olympics , but did not start the competition. His first international medal came at the 1965 Summer Universiade , where he was the bronze medallist . [3]

Hedmark changed his focus to combined events in 1967 and he was one of his region's dominant athletes over his career: he had four consecutive victories in the Nordic Combined Events Championships from 1967 to 1970, [4] and in a decade of national competition he won seven Swedish decathlon titles in addition to five titles in the pentathlon . [2] At the 1968 Summer Olympics he came eleventh in the decathlon. [1] International medals came at the 1970 Summer Universiade , where he took the silver behind Mykola Avilov , [3] and at the 1971 European Athletics Championships , finishing as runner-up to the defending champion Joachim Kirst . [5]

He made his second Olympic appearance at the 1972 Munich Games , but he did not manage to finish the competition. [1] The following year he was the inaugural winner of the European Combined Events Cup . [6] His best performance of the year came in Bonn and his total of 8163 points was the best by any athlete that year. [7] Hedmark's final major appearance came at the 1976 Summer Olympics and had his best Olympic outing with a score of 8002 for eighth place. [1]

Although he never won a major title, Hedmark's career was one of the most prolific as he competed in a total of 76 combined events competitions. This was the greatest number ever for a top level athlete at the time and remains among the highest totals; Kip Janvrin bettered this achievement and was himself succeeded by Roman ?ebrle , who completed over 100 appearances. Hedmark is now the fourth most prolific combined eventer after Janvrin, ?ebrle and Toma? Dvo?ak . [8]

He married Briton Linda Knowles , a fellow top class European athlete. [9]

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References [ edit ]

  1. ^ a b c d Lennart Hedmark . Sports Reference. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  2. ^ a b Swedish Championships . GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  3. ^ a b Summer Universiade (Men) . GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  4. ^ Nordic Championships . GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  5. ^ European Championships (Men) . GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  6. ^ European Combined Events Cup . GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  7. ^ Decathlon season's bests . Decathlon 2000. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
  8. ^ van Kuijen, Hans (1 April 2010). Sebrle approaching unprecedented milestone ? IAAF World Combined Events Challenge . IAAF. Retrieved on 2011-05-07.
  9. ^ Linda Knowles . Sports Reference. Retrieved on 7 May 2011.
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