Erik Ågren (boxer)
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Erik Alfred Ågren (3 January 1916 – 3 July 1985) was a
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amateur boxer. He won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the
1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...
and a silver medal as a welterweight at the 1939 European Amateur Boxing Championships. Ågren's three brothers, Carl, Oscar and Ture Ågren, were also elite boxers who competed at the European level.


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