Lennart Back
20 km walk | |||||||||||||||
Club | Uddevalla Cykelamatörer | ||||||||||||||
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Personal best | 1:31:13 (1962)[1] | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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
- ^ a b Lennart Back. sports-reference.com
- ^ Lennart Back död (in Swedish)
- ^ Lennart Back. Swedish Olympic Committee
- ^ World and Continental Race Walking Cups. GBR Athletics. Retrieved on 20 February 2016.