Ivar Bengt Nilsson (12 June 1933 – 26 February 2019)Göteborgske skridskoikonen Ivar Nilsson död
was a Swedish speed skater who won a bronze all-round medal at the 1962 world championships. He competed at the

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

and

1964 Winter Olympics The 1964 Winter Olympics, officially known as the IX Olympic Winter Games (german: IX. Olympische Winterspiele) and commonly known as Innsbruck 1964 ( bar, Innschbruck 1964, label=Austro-Bavarian), was a winter multi-sport event which was celebr ...

in 1,500 m, 5,000 m and 10,000 m events with his best achievement having been a fourth place finish in the 10,000 m event in 1960. He was not related to his speed skating rival

Jonny Nilsson Erling Martin Jonny Nilsson (9 February 1943 – 22 June 2022) was a Swedish competitive speed skater. He was the men's Olympic champion in the 10 000 m skating in 1964. Biography Aged 19 Nilsson made his international debut at the European ...

. Personal bests: *500 m – 42.6 (1963) *1500 m – 2:10.5 (1963) *5000 m – 7:42.8 (1964) *10000 m – 16:02.9 (1963)

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* 1933 births 2019 deaths Olympic speed skaters for Sweden Speed skaters at the 1960 Winter Olympics Speed skaters at the 1964 Winter Olympics Swedish male speed skaters World Allround Speed Skating Championships medalists Sportspeople from Gothenburg 20th-century Swedish people {{Sweden-speed-skating-bio-stub