Leif Nils Oskar Högström (born 4 July 1955) is a Swedish fencer and Olympic Champion. He competed at the

1976 Summer Olympics The 1976 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Montreal 1976 (), were an international multi-sport event held from July 17 to August 1, 1976, in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. Montreal ...

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, where he won a gold medal in

épée The (, ; ), also rendered as epee in English, is the largest and heaviest of the three weapons used in the sport of fencing. The modern derives from the 19th-century , a weapon which itself derives from the French small sword. This contains a ...

with the Swedish team. Högström represented

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* 1955 births Living people Fencers from Stockholm Swedish male épée fencers Olympic fencers for Sweden Fencers at the 1976 Summer Olympics Fencers at the 1980 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in fencing Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen Djurgårdens IF fencers {{Sweden-fencing-bio-stub