Kurt Lundqvist

Kurt Lundqvist (20 November 1914 – 26 March 1976) was a Swedish track and field athlete who competed in the high jump.

A Swedish record came for Lundqvist in 1937 – his jump of 1.98 m (6 ft 5+3⁄4 in) improved Karl Österberg's twelve-year-old mark.

[3] In the only major tournament outing of his international career, he won the gold medal at the 1938 European Athletics Championships in Paris in a near-personal best of 1.97 m (6 ft 5+1⁄2 in).

His win at the second edition of this competition marked the beginning of a period of Swedish dominance in that event, with Anton Bolinder, Bengt Nilsson and Rickard Dahl maintaining the European title for Sweden at four of the following five editions.

[2] He did not compete in a major event after 1938 and the onset of World War II the year after ended chance at further high level sports competition.