Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) Club Orgryte IS, Goteborg Event(s) 400 m, 400 m hurdles | Sport Athletics Weight 65 kg (143 lb) Name Kell Areskoug | |
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Born 18 August 1906 Jonkoping, Sweden Died 21 December 1996 (aged 90)
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Johan Kellgren "Kell" Areskoug (18 August 1906 – 21 December 1996) was a Swedish sprinter. He competed in the Olympics in 1932 and 1936 and won a bronze medal at the 1938 European Championships in the 400 m hurdles.
Career
At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles Areskoug competed in both the 400 m and the 400 m hurdles. In the 400 m he went out in the heats, but in the hurdles he qualified for the final, running his personal best time of 53.2 in the semi-finals. In the final he only managed 54.6, finishing sixth and last. Four years later in Berlin he only competed in the 400 m hurdles, failing to qualify from the heats.
Areskoug placed third in the 400 m hurdles at the 1938 European Championships in Paris, running 53.6 and losing only to Prudent Joye and József Kovács.
Areskoug held the Swedish 400 m hurdles title in 1931, 1933, 1935–38. He placed second in the 400 m hurdles in 1929–30 and in the 110 m hurdles in 1930–31 and 1935–36.