Leif Evert Dahlgren (6 February 1906 – 16 April 1998) was a Swedish

decathlete The decathlon is a combined event in athletics consisting of ten track and field events. The word "decathlon" was formed, in analogy to the word "pentathlon", from Greek δέκα (''déka'', meaning "ten") and ἄθλος (''áthlos'', or ἄθ ...

who won a silver medal at the 1934 European Championships. He competed at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

, but failed to finish. Leif was the Swedish champions in pentathlon (1932, 1933, 1935, 1936), decathlon (1931–34),

standing long jump The standing long jump, also known as the standing broad jump, is an athletics event. It was an Olympic event until 1912. It is one of three standing variants of track and field jumping events, which also include the standing high jump and ...

(1933 and 1935) and 400 m hurdles (1934) and held the Swedish record in the standing long jump.

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1906 births 1998 deaths Swedish decathletes Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists Sportspeople from Lund Athletes from Skåne County SoIK Hellas athletes {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub