Yngve Häckner (9 August 1895 – 3 December 1987) was a

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er,

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and

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. He broke the world record total for javelin with both hands in 1917 and won the Swedish championship four times. From 1948 to 1952 he represented the Liberal People's Party in the second chamber of the

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Sports career

Häckner was Swedish champion in the javelin throw in 1913, 1914, 1917 and 1918. In all these years the two-handed format was used: the javelin was separately thrown with the right hand and the left hand, with the best results for both hands added together. In 1917 he broke

Urho Peltonen Urho Pellervo Peltonen (15 January 1893 – 7 January 1951) was a Finnish athlete who competed mainly in the javelin throw. He competed for Finland in the 1912 Summer Olympics held in Stockholm, Sweden, in both the regular and two-handed ja ...

's world record for this event, totalling 114.28 and throwing 61.81 with his better hand. As throwing the javelin with both hands soon became a rarity, Häckner's world record has never been officially broken. Norway's Olav Sunde achieved a total of 117.21 in 1930, throwing 66.86 with his better hand, but that record wasn't officially ratified as the competition had been unsanctioned.

Later life

Häckner was a

by profession, and had his own

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in Stockholm between 1937 and 1966. He also participated in

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, supporting the Liberal People's Party (''Folkpartiet''). He opposed

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and advocated boycotting 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 ...

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. He represented the Liberal People's Party in the second chamber of the Swedish Parliament (''

'') from 1948 to 1952. His paternal grandfather, Jonas Andersson, had also been a member of the Riksdag.

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1895 births 1987 deaths People from Södermanland Swedish male javelin throwers Swedish sportsperson-politicians Members of the Riksdag from the Liberals (Sweden) 20th-century Swedish lawyers {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub