Lennart Lindgren

Lennart Lindgren was a Swedish track and field athlete who represented MAI in Malmö. Lindgren specialised in sprinting and won five consecutive national titles from 1934 to 1938 as part of the 4 x 100 metres relay quartet. In 1938 he also won gold in the 4 x 400 metres relay, before winning his only individual Swedish title the following year, with victory in the 100 metres. Lindgren ran in both the 100 metres and the 4 × 100 metres relay at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, reaching the quarter-finals in the former. At the 1938 European Athletics Championships in Paris he won silver in the 4×100 metres relay (with Åke Stenqvist, Lennart Strandberg, and the non-Olympian Gösta Klemming). Lindgren was only 37-years-old when he died in April 1952 in a hospital in Malmö.

Personal Best: 100 – 10.7 (1936).