Bågspännaren, Bronze sculpture in Stockholm, Sweden.

Bågspännaren is a bronze sculpture on a tall, tapering pedestal at the northwest side of Kornhamnstorg in Gamla stan, Stockholm. It shows a young man bent forward as he spans a crossbow. Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson and his fighters appear only as reliefs on the pedestal.

The monument commemorates the Engelbrekt uprising of 1434–1436. Christian Eriksson created the sculpture for a competition announced in 1902 for Falun, where it was proposed in 1909 but rejected as too much an idea and too little a conventional hero portrait; Karl Hultström's Engelbrekt statue replaced it there in 1919. The Föreningen för Stockholms prydande med konstverk bought the work and gave it to Stockholm, which unveiled it on Kornhamnstorg in 1916.

The figure is a young man spanning a crossbow, not Engelbrekt himself: the leader and his fighters appear only as reliefs on the pedestal. The author Ivar Lo-Johansson noted in his novel Asfalt that here an ordinary man is shown defending his country. A similar figure appeared on a 1914 right-wing election poster, and the crossbow long served as the Right's symbol.

The monument stands on the northwest side of Kornhamnstorg in Gamla stan, on the open square rather than against a wall, so it can be walked around. The bronze figure sits on a tall, tapering pedestal, which puts the crossbow above eye level; the reliefs of Engelbrekt and his fighters are on the pedestal itself and are best read from close up.

The model was Christian Eriksson's friend Gösta Fagerlind, head teacher at a primary school in Arvika; the likeness is close except that the hair was lengthened into a polka cut. A copy stood on a pillar at Gammelgården in Stora Tuna, near the site of Borganäs castle, which Engelbrekt's men stormed and burned on Midsummer Day 1434; that statue was inaugurated in 1947 and stolen in 2020.