Åke Valter Stenqvist (31 January 1914 – 12 August 2006) was a Swedish athlete who specialized in the 100 m sprint and

long jump The long jump is a track and field event in which athletes combine speed, strength and agility in an attempt to leap as far as possible from a takeoff point. Along with the triple jump, the two events that measure jumping for distance as a gr ...

. He competed in the 4 × 100 m relay and long jump at the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...

and finished 10th in the long jump. Later he won a silver medal in the relay at the 1938 European Championships. Stenqvist held national titles in the long jump (1935–42) and pentathlon (1940–42); he was also an international

handball Handball (also known as team handball, European handball, Olympic handball or indoor handball) is a team sport in which two teams of seven players each (six outcourt players and a goalkeeper) pass a ball using their hands with the aim of thr ...

player.

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* * * * * 1914 births 2006 deaths Swedish male sprinters Swedish male handball players Swedish male long jumpers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics European Athletics Championships medalists Athletes from Stockholm 20th-century Swedish sportsmen {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub