Åke Ödmark (29 October 1916 – 4 September 1994) was a Swedish

high jump The high jump is a track and field event in which competitors must jump unaided over a horizontal bar placed at measured heights without dislodging it. In its modern, most-practiced format, a bar is placed between two standards with a crash mat f ...

er. He finished 12th 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 fourth at the

1938 European Athletics Championships The 2nd European Athletics Championships was a continental athletics competition for European athletes which was held in two places in 1938. The men's event took place in Paris, France between 3–5 September while the women's events were in Vie ...

. Aged 19 he was the youngest participant from Sweden at the 1936 Games. Ödmark won the Swedish title in 1939 and 1940. In 1941 became the first Swede to clear the 2.00 m height in an official competition. Ödmark represented

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and

UoIF Matteuspojkarna Ungdoms-och Idrottsföreningen Matteuspojkarna, commonly known as Matteuspojkarna () or MP, is a sports club in Stockholm, Sweden. History Matteuspojkarna was founded on 15 May 1915. The founder, V. Wiklund, was a pastor and first gathered his c ...

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* * * * * 1916 births 1994 deaths Swedish male high jumpers Olympic athletes for Sweden Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics 20th-century Swedish sportsmen UoIF Matteuspojkarna athletes {{Sweden-athletics-bio-stub