Kjell-Erik Ståhl

Kjell -Erik Ståhl ( Kjell -Erik Bertil Ståhl, born February 17, 1946 in Killeberg, Osby Municipality ) is a Swedish marathon runner.

Ståhl was originally orienteers. His career as a senior manager at Telia he practiced also continue to 1979, when he his amazing marathon career began. On September 9, 1979, he finished in Östhammar the first of his 101 ( completed ) the marathon and his first of 70 marathons under 2:20 in a time of 2:16:49 h at the Olympic Games in Moscow in 1980, he finished 19th Place.

In 1981, he won the Frankfurt Marathon the first City Marathon on German soil in 2:13:20 h In the same year he won the Beijing Marathon. In 1982, he was fifth at the Boston Marathon, won the Stockholm Marathon and stayed with eleven other runs under 2:21 hours.

The following year, he won among others the Munich Marathon and placed fourth at the World Athletics Championships in Helsinki, only one second of Olympic champion Waldemar Cierpinski beaten with 2:10:38 hours a Swedish record that remains unbroken to this day.

In a marathon, the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, he was forced to retire, but remained in the same year with nine other runs under 2:20.

After he had set up his second win in Stockholm with a 2:12:33 h age group record in the M40 class, he was ninth at the European Athletics Championships 1986 in Stuttgart.

In 1991, he presented at the Berlin Marathon with 2:15:51 h another age group record, this time in the class M45. In the following two years, he had to have surgery on the heel. In 1995, he ran in Stockholm with 49 years of its last sub -2 :20- hour marathon.

In 2006 he went with the Frankfurt Marathon to the start with a view to establishing a record for the class M60, but was due to problems at the heel on.

Ståhl is 1,88 m tall and has a competition weight of 70 kg. The American Doug Kurtis has still expel some sub -2 :20- hour marathon more, with 2:13:34 hours but clearly inferior best.