Ernfrid Appelqvist, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish diver at the 1912 Olympic Games
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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Ernfrid Appelqvist
- Ernst Oscar Ernfrid Appelqvist (15 June 1888 – 26 January 1966), later known as Ernest Applequist, was a Swedish diver who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He finished fifth in his first round heat of the 3 metre springboard event and did not advance to the final.A native of Stockholm, Applequist immigrated to the United States after the Olympics, living in Minnesota and New York.
- During World War II, he worked a night shift at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York, while each day broadcasting a 30-minute news program via shortwave radio to Sweden.
- "I would love to do anything can to sway the minds of the Swedish people away form the Nazis," he said in a 1942 interview.Applequist later moved to San Jose, California, where he died in 1966.
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