Hakon Leffler (11 March 1887 – 31 July 1972) was a Swedish engineer, businessman and

tennis Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...

player. He was the son of merchant Carl Leopold Leffler, studied

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at the

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from 1905 to 1908, and at

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where he graduated in 1910.Vem är Vem?: Götalandsdelen utom Skåne (1948), p. 577
/ref> After having worked at the M.E. Delbanco company 1912–1915, he became the CEO of Svensk oljeslageri AB 1916. In 1929 he became the deputy CEO at Gamlestadens fabriker, a textile company in Gothenburg, and in 1935 its CEO.

Olympic career

Leffler competed in two individual tennis events at the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

.Hakon Leffler
Swedish Olympic Committee

References

1887 births 1972 deaths Swedish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Sweden Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Gothenburg 20th-century Swedish businesspeople KTH Royal Institute of Technology alumni Uppsala University alumni {{Sweden-tennis-bio-stub