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Sport
  
Diving

Club
  
Stockholms KK

Name
  
Nils Skoglund


Nils Skoglund

Born
  
15 August 1906
Stockholm, Sweden

Died
  
1 January 1980 (aged 73) Stockholm, Sweden

Nils "Niklas" Skoglund (15 August 1906 – 1 January 1980) was a Swedish diver who won the silver medal in the plain high diving competition at the 1920 Summer Olympics. He still remains the youngest male Olympian to win a medal in an individual event, at 14 years, 11 days.

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After the Olympics Skoglund retired from diving and played water polo for his club Stockholms KK. His elder brother Erik competed in swimming at the 1924 Summer Olympics, and the other brother Gunnar was a film actor.

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