Knut Rudolf "Favör-Fredrik" Fredriksson (3 March 1930 – 19 May 2019) was a Swedish javelin thrower. He competed at the

1958 European Athletics Championships The 6th European Athletics Championships were held from 19–24 August 1958 in the Olympic Stadium of Stockholm, Sweden. Contemporaneous reports on the event were given in the Glasgow Herald. Medal summary Complete results were publi ...

and

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

and finished in ninth and sixth place, respectively. Fredriksson won the national javelin title in 1954 and 1958–60 and set a new national record in 1959. He was nicknamed Favör-Fredrik after his first club IK Favör.

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1930 births 2019 deaths Swedish male javelin throwers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics IF Göta athletes {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub