Richard ‘Dick’ Railsback (March 19, 1946 – June 30, 2021[2]) was an American pole vaulter.

[1] He attended the 1976 Summer Olympics as a coach for the American athletics team.

[3] In August 1970 Railsback married Annika Rohlén, an interpreter during his 1967 visit to Sweden.

Dick and Annika have a daughter Michelle and son Michael.

Both were born and raised in Lincoln, Nebraska, but spent every summer in Sweden until ca.