Lennart Back

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Lennart Back
20 km walk
ClubUddevalla Cykelamatörer
Achievements and titles
Personal best1:31:13 (1962)[1]
Medal record
Representing  Sweden
Men's athletics
European Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1958 Stockholm 20 km walk

Torsten Lennart Back (28 May 1933 – 1 August 2022)

race walker. He won a bronze medal in the 20 km event at the 1958 European Championships and finished sixth at the 1960 Summer Olympics.[1][3]

He was the silver medallist at the inaugural 1961 IAAF World Race Walking Cup and represented Sweden again at that competition in 1963, 1965 and 1970 (though not winning a medal those times).[4]

References

  1. ^ a b Lennart Back. sports-reference.com
  2. ^ Lennart Back död (in Swedish)
  3. ^ Lennart Back. Swedish Olympic Committee
  4. ^ World and Continental Race Walking Cups. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 20 February 2016.