Ernfrid Appelqvist

Ernfrid Appelqvist, the son of a blacksmith, competed in springboard diving at the 1912 Olympic Games in Stockholm but did not advance to the final, which was dominated by German divers.

Appelqvist later emigrated to the United States, where he anglicised his name to Ernest Applequist. He lived and worked in Minnesota and New York. During World War II, he broadcast a half-hour shortwave radio news program to Sweden while working night shifts as a machinist at the General Electric plant in Schenectady, New York. Later, he settled in San Diego, California, married Ellen Engberg and together they had one son and one daughter.