{{short description|Swedish gymnast}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2025}}

{{Infobox gymnast | name = Stina Haage | country = {{SWE}} | birth_date = {{birth-date|3 August 1924}} | birth_place = Landskrona | death_date = {{death date and age|2017|06|15|1924|08|03|df=yes}} | discipline = WAG | death_place = Lidingö }}

'''Ulla Stina Ljunggren''', {{Nee|'''Haage'''}} (3 August 1924 &ndash; 15 June 2017)<ref name="SOK">{{Cite web |title=Stina Haage |url=https://sok.se/idrottare/idrottare/s/stina-haage.html |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Swedish Olympic Committee |language=sv}}</ref> was a Swedish gymnast. She competed in the women's artistic team all-around event at the 1948 Summer Olympics, in London, where the Swedish team finished in the fourth place.<ref name="sref">{{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/stina-haage-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417203628/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/stina-haage-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |accessdate=27 March 2015}}</ref> Afterward, she became influential in promoting sport in Sweden.

== Biography == Haage was born in Landskrona in 1924. She had four siblings, and the family moved to Stockholm when she was around 7.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |last=Lundvall |first=Suzanne |date=2021-02-26 |title=Ulla Stina Ljunggren |url=https://skbl.se/en/article/StinaLjunggren |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Svenskt kvinnobiografiskt lexikon |language=en}}</ref>

She enrolled at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences in 1946 due to her interest in gymnastics and became qualified in physical education.<ref name=":0" /> In 1948, she competed at the Summer Olympics, where she placed fourth in the team event with her Swedish teammates.<ref name="sref" />

In 1949, she married Olle Ljunggren. The couple had two children together and also often worked together. Between 1949 and 1954, they worked in physical education in Belgium, then returned to Sweden to work at the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences. Between 1955 and 1977, Haage taught gymnastics and joined a number of sports-related organizations; she was on the board of the Swedish Gymnastics Association and became a brevet gymnastics judge.<ref name=":0" />

In 1972, she was elected to the board of the Swedish Olympic Committee, the first woman to join the board. She held the position through the end of the 1980s. In 1977, she also became the director of the Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences and was the first woman to hold that position as well. Her focuses as director included sports science and pedagogy. Later in her career, she gained an interest in parasports and sports for children with impairments.<ref name=":0" />

She died in 2017 at the age of 92.<ref name="SOK" />

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Haage, Stina}} Category:1924 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Swedish female artistic gymnasts Category:Olympic gymnasts for Sweden Category:Gymnasts at the 1948 Summer Olympics Category:20th-century Swedish sportswomen Category:People from Landskrona