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Bo Ekelund

1894 - 1983

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Bo Daniel Ekelund (26 July 1894 – 1 April 1983) was a Swedish high jumper who won a bronze medal at the 1920 Summer Olympics. Ekelund was a top Scandinavian high jumper in the late 1910s. He won the Swedish Games with a jump of 1.85 m in 1916, the Scandinavian triangular meet in 1919, and Swedish national titles in 1919 and 1920. In September 1919 he set a new Scandinavian record at 1.93 m, which was the world's best jump in 1919. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bo Ekelund has received more than 10,873 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia. Bo Ekelund is the 1,595th most popular athlete (down from 906th in 2019), the 1,085th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 870th in 2019) and the 107th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Bo Ekelund ranks 1,595 out of 6,025. Before him are Jean Boiteux, Mo Farah, Mikhail Zhelev, Robert Korzeniowski, Valerie Brisco-Hooks, and Mia Gommers. After him are Harry Steevens, David Smith, Charles Hefferon, Darya Domracheva, Sultan Rakhmanov, and Michel Knuysen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1894, Bo Ekelund ranks 247. Before him are Norman Kerry, Jacob Opdahl, Nick Winter, Belle Moore, Rudolf Geiger, and Mikhail Suslin. After him are Søren Petersen, André Jousseaume, Robert Russell Bennett, Frederick E. Morgan, James Anderson, and Margaret Molesworth. Among people deceased in 1983, Bo Ekelund ranks 241. Before him are André Chamson, Amadeo Ortega, Hal Brown, Joan Hackett, Friedrich Scherfke, and Momčilo Đokić. After him are Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna, Claude Vivier, Sabino Bilbao, Eubie Blake, Rezső Somlai, and Stefan Skoumal.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bo Ekelund ranks 1,085 out of 1,879. Before him are Johnny Höglin (1943), Jonny Jakobsen (1963), Magnus Samuelsson (1969), Nils Nilsson (1936), Peter Eriksson (1958), and Jan Möller (1953). After him are Michael Amott (1969), Karin Alvtegen (1965), Magnus Norman (1976), Roger Ljung (1966), Gunnar Larsson (1951), and Stig Sollander (1926).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Bo Ekelund ranks 107. Before him are Carl von Essen (1940), Erik Algot Fredriksson (1885), Gustaf Lindblom (1891), Birger Cederin (1895), Adolf Wiklund (1921), and Ragnar Lundberg (1924). After him are Håkan Malmrot (1900), Folke Alnevik (1919), Bengt Nilsson (1934), Josef Ternström (1888), Gösta Runö (1896), and Carl Abrahamsson (1896).

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