Leif Dahlgren

Leif Dahlgren was a Swedish all-round track and field athlete and gymnast. In the latter, Dahlgren won seven national titles from 1926 to 1933 in the “grenhopp”, which involved recording the greatest height while jumping over a pommel horse. In track and field he won 11 national titles across four different disciplines, with gold in the decathlon (1931–34), pentathlon (1932–33, 1935–36), standing long jump (1933, 1935), and the 400 metres hurdles (1934). At the 1934 European Athletics Championships in Torino he won silver in the decathlon, with Germany’s Hans-Heinrich Sievert winning gold. Two years later Dahlgren competed in the decathlon at the 1936 Berlin Olympics but recorded a DNF after failing to start in the last discipline, the 1,500 metres. He held Swedish records in the pentathlon, decathlon, and the pole vault, and later competed in modern pentathlon and fencing.

Personal Best: Dec – 6565 (1933).