{"id":130124,"date":"2025-05-08T07:53:59","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/swedish-joel-bengtsson-got-the-sledge-in-the-head-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-submarine\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T07:54:01","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T07:54:01","slug":"swedish-joel-bengtsson-got-the-sledge-in-the-head-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-submarine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teknomers.com\/en\/swedish-joel-bengtsson-got-the-sledge-in-the-head-news-sport-sports-news-results-and-submarine\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Joel Bengtsson got the sledge in the head &#8211; news Sport &#8211; Sports News, Results and Submarine"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Saka compiled Joel Bengtsson, a Swedish breeding runner, was seriously injured when he was hit by a sledge of training in the United States in 2023. The accident resulted in serious injuries to Bengtsson&#8217;s main skull and face, but he survived miraculously. There are earlier cases of athletics accidents with equipment that have created concerns about the security during training and competitions. Bengtsson struggled with pain, but has expressed gratitude for surviving, and in addition, vague plans to return to the sport. The summary is created by a Ki-service from Openai. The content is quality assured by news&#8217;s \u200b\u200bjournalists before publishing. &#8211; It&#8217;s absolutely awful to right. It says former crochet runner Vladimir Vukicevic when he gets the right story of Joel Bengtsson &#8211; a competitor for many years. Bengtsson, who previously participated in the European Championships and the World Cup for Sweden, was training in the United States when he suddenly hit the head of a sledge at Seinhausten 2023. To the Swedish Expressen, Bengtsson tells on Wednesday for the first time about the event, who managed to kill him. OL HOPE: Joel Bengtsson has participated in both the World Cup and the European Championship for Sweden. He dreamed of the Olympics. Photo: Lise \u00c5serud \/ NTB &#8211; I did not faint, but there was blood everywhere and I knew it was not good. At the hospital they found out that my forehead was crushed in small pieces and my legs at my cushions were completely crushed, Bengtsson tells Expressen. How could something like this happen? &#8211; Risk sport According to the Swede, there was no net in the cage where the sledgewist stood. The crochet runner warmed up on the grass with the others in the training group and came too close to those who thrown. &#8211; It is incredible that I survived. The doctors told me that some sledge had trees a few millimeters further in, I would be dead, he says. The way it should be: Sleeping throwers are usually inside a cage with the net. It should not have our case when Bengtsson became a trick, according to the protagonist himself. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle \/ NTB A quick web search shows that no one has mentioned the accident until now. The Swedish breeding runner has a low profile and chosen not to talk to the press. Bengtsson went to college in the United States and dreamed of the Paris Olympics before the accident. Now he is unsure if he will return to the athletics arena again. Two years after the accident, the 26-year-old struggled with major main pain. But he happily praises himself to be alive. &#8211; It&#8217;s pretty incredible, but the only thing you look at me from the accident is a four centimeter long scars in my face. The plastic surgeon did an incredible job, otherwise I had a big hole in my head, says Bengtsson. Former competitor: Vladimir Vukicevic knows Joel Bengtsson after many years as competitors. Photo: Lise Aaserud \/ NTB Vladimir Vukicevic feels that athletics can sometimes be a risk sport because there are so many sports on the field at the same time. &#8211; We have previously seen Tero Pitk\u00e4m\u00e4ki hitting Salim Siri with a spear that stood straight out of his back. Siri got lucky from it, without the great injuries, says the Norwegian, about the accident that happened in 2011. It is all the great fear of the practitioner to be hit by a sledge, adds Vukicevic. news does not know how heavy the slug in question was. For comparison, the slopes of the women are four kilos. Skaka Verda: In 2011, long jumps Salim Siri hit a spear under a Golden League voice in Rome. Photo: Gregorio Borgia \/ AP \/ NTB Henriksen Afraid to meet some Olympic medalist Eivind Henriksen Describe the event with Bengtsson as &#8220;scary and no fun&#8221;. He says that it is also all the great horror of the sledge to hit someone in training or competition. &#8211; Especially when one is in cities where one sees that the cage around does not hold the standard. You fit a little extra and check that there is no one in the throwing area, says Henriksen. &#8211; Have you heard about the like before? &#8211; Yes, there have been some episodes, and more episodes where things have not gone so well, replies Henriksen. Norwegian Profile: Eivind Henriksen says that it is all the Slegg throwar&#8217;s horror to meet someone with the sledge. Photo: Beate Oma Dahle \/ NTB In January this year, the BBC wrote about a spectator killed by a sledge during a sports voice at a high school in the United States. Bengtsson tells Expressen that in the tough time he has continued his studies at the University UCLA, California. For the summer there will be an exam before moving home to Sweden again. There he dreams of living a normal life. Dramatic accident: Swedish Joel Bengtsson, according to Legane, was a millimeter away from death. Photo: Vegard Gr\u00f8tt \/ Bilderby\u00e5n Published 08.05.2025, at. 08.59<br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrk.no\/sport\/svenske-joel-bengtsson-fekk-slegge-i-hovudet-1.17408015\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">ttn-69 <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saka compiled Joel Bengtsson, a Swedish breeding runner, was seriously injured when he was hit by a sledge of training in the United States in 2023. The accident resulted in serious injuries to Bengtsson&#8217;s main skull and face, but he survived miraculously. 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