Bo Ljungberg
Bo Alexander Ljungberg was a Swedish athlete. He won two silver medals in the pole vault at the European Championships and competed in the 1936 [Summer Olympics] as both a pole vaulter and a triple jumper.
Career
Bo Ljungberg won gold in the pole vault at the 1933 [International University Games] in Turin, clearing 3.90 m. At the following year's European Championships, also in Turin, he jumped 4.00 m and won silver behind Germany's Gustav Wegner; he also competed in the triple jump, placing 8th with 14.01 m.He also took part in both events at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin; in the Athletics at the 1936 [Summer Olympics – Men's triple jump|triple jump] he managed 14.35 m and placed eighteenth, while in the Athletics at the 1936 Summer Olympics – Men's [pole vault|pole vault] he again cleared 4.00 m and shared sixth place with ten others. At the 1938 European Championships he repeated his silver medal from four years before, clearing 4.00 m once more. In 1939 [International University Games (Vienna)|1939] he won a second International University Games medal, clearing 3.90 m for third place.
Ljungberg set his personal pole vault best, 4.15 m, in 1935, breaking Henry Lindblad's Swedish record of 4.13 m from the 1931 Finnkampen. The new record lasted until 1946, when Lars Andrén cleared 4.16 m. Ljungberg's personal best in the triple jump was 14.73 m from 1934.