Ingeborg Sjöqvist

Who is Ingeborg Sjöqvist?

Ingeborg Maria Sjöqvist-Ingers is a Swedish diver who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics and in the 1936 Summer Olympics.

She was born in Kalmar. In 1932 she finished fourth in the 10 metre platform event in Los Angeles, where she was the only female member of Sweden's national team. Four years later she finished ninth in the 10 metre platform competition.

Later in life she recalled that because her home town's diving board was 3m shorter than regulation she had to stand on a built-up scaffold to train for her 10m event in Los Angeles.

She turned 100 in April 2012 and is Sweden's oldest living former Olympian.