Kjell-Åke Lennart "Sörmarkarn" Nilsson (born 5 April 1942) is a retired Swedish

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er. He competed at the

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and

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and at the

1966 European Athletics Championships The 8th European Athletics Championships were held from 30 August to 4 September 1966 in the Stadium Puskás Ferenc, Nép Stadium in Budapest, Hungarian People's Republic, Hungary. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Hera ...

and finished in seventh, sixth and eighth place, respectively. Nilsson won a bronze medal at the

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and became a Swedish champion outdoors in 1963 and indoors in 1966. Nilsson won the British

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title in the high jump event at the

1965 AAA Championships The 1965 AAA Championships was the 1965 edition of the annual outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Association (AAA). It was held from 9 to 10 July 1965 at White City Stadium in London, England. Summary The C ...

References

1942 births Living people Swedish male high jumpers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen People from Torsby Municipality Athletes from Värmland County {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub