Bengt Baron

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Olympic medal record
Men's swimming
Gold	Moscow 1980	100 m backstroke
Bronze	Los Angeles 1984	4x100 m freestyle relay

Bengt Baron (born March 6, 1962) was a backstroke swimmer from Sweden. He won the 100 m Backstroke at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, and was a member of the bronze winning team from Sweden in the 4x100m Freestyle at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, California. An undergraduate student from the University of California, Baron was named into its Hall of Fame in 1999. In the years 1979–1985 he won a total number of 33 Swedish titles.

After his career as swimmer, Bengt Baron attended the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, where he received his MBA in 1988. Upon graduation, he joined McKinsey & Company in their Stockholm office. Afterwhich, he joined numerous consumer companies, including Coca-Cola, AB Frionor (a Norwegian frozen seafood company), and Kodak. In 2001, Bengt Baron was named CEO and President of Absolut Vodka.

[edit] Clubs

• SK Korrugal
• Järfälla SS

Olympic champions in men's 100 m backstroke

1908: Arno Bieberstein | 1912: Harry Hebner | 1920: Warren Paoa Kealoha | 1924: Warren Paoa Kealoha | 1928: George Kojac | 1932: Masaji Kiyokawa | 1936: Adolf Kiefer | 1948: Allen Stack | 1952: Yoshinobu Oyakawa | 1956: David Theile | 1960: David Theile | 1968: Roland Matthes | 1972: Roland Matthes | 1976: John Naber | 1980: Bengt Baron | 1984: Rick Carey | 1988: Daichi Suzuki | 1992: Mark Tewksbury | 1996: Jeff Rouse | 2000: Lenny Krayzelburg | 2004: Aaron Peirsol