Ingeborg Maria Ingers (née Sjöqvist; 19 April 1912 – 22 November 2015) was a Swedish diver.

Biography

Ingeborg Sjöqvist was born on 19 April 1912 in

Kalmar Kalmar (, , ) is a city in the southeast of Sweden, situated by the Baltic Sea. It had 36,392 inhabitants in 2010 and is the seat of Kalmar Municipality. It is also the capital of Kalmar County, which comprises 12 municipalities with a total of ...

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. She had an older sister,

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(1903–1964). She won two silver medals in the 10 meter platform event at the European championships, in 1931 and 1934. She competed in the platform at the

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and

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and finished in fourth and ninth place, respectively. Her elder sister Lala won a bronze medal in the platform at the 1928 Olympics. Later in life Ingers recalled that her home town's diving board was 3 m shorter than regulation, and thus she had to stand on a built-up scaffold to train for her 10 m event. She turned 100 in April 2012 and was the world's oldest living Olympian from the death of

Guo Jie Guo Jie (; January 16, 1912 – November 15, 2015) was a Chinese Olympic athlete who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, where he was eliminated before reaching the final of the men's discus throw event. A multi-sport athlete in high s ...

until her own one week later. In 1939, she married Lennart Ingers (born 14 April 1915), who also became a centenarian in April 2015, after 75 years of marriage.Rekordpar i Rydebäck med rätt att fira rejält
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''. 14 April 2015 Lennart died on 22 November 2015, just 2 weeks and 3 days before Ingeborg.

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