Kenth Gardenkrans
Kenth Roland Gardenkrans (born October 2, 1955 in Helsingborg, Skåne, Sweden) is a Swedish discus thrower. He represented Sweden at the 1980 Olympics.[1] He competed for Mölndal AIK . Gardenkrans won the 1980 and 81 Swedish championship in discus. While at Brigham Young University he won the 1978 NCAA Championships and was an All American.[2]
In 1974 he set the World Junior Record, twice, ending up with 62.04. He finished second at the 1973 European Athletics Junior Championships behind future world record holder Wolfgang Schmidt. Knee injuries curtailed his later career.
In 2011, he was hired as the throwing coach for Qatar. But he soon packed his bags and returned to Sweden when he learned he was expected to train [3] who was already on a 2-year doping suspension.[4]
His youngest son Jakob Gardenkrans improved Kenths previous world record to 62.58m 2016. His other son was also a top Swedish thrower, participating in the 2012 World Junior Championships.[5]
References[]
- ^ Kenth Gardenkrans at Sports Reference
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2014-03-10. Retrieved 2014-06-18.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
- ^ "2 Asian Games athletes fail drug test".
- ^ http://www.sydsvenskan.se/sport/gardenkrans-lamnar-qatar/[bare URL]
- ^ "WIT Wall of Fame | Global Throwing".
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