Martin Carl Sofus Olsen (22 November 1894 – 9 July 1971) was a

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who competed in the

1920 Summer Olympics The 1920 Summer Olympics (french: Jeux olympiques d'été de 1920; nl, Olympische Zomerspelen van 1920; german: Olympische Sommerspiele 1920), officially known as the Games of the VII Olympiad (french: Jeux de la VIIe olympiade; nl, Spelen van ...

. He was born in Sundby,

Copenhagen Copenhagen ( or .; da, København ) is the capital and most populous city of Denmark, with a proper population of around 815.000 in the last quarter of 2022; and some 1.370,000 in the urban area; and the wider Copenhagen metropolitan ar ...

and died in

. In 1920 he was eliminated in the quarter-finals of the middleweight class after losing his fight to

Hjalmar Strømme Hjalmar Strømme (26 September 1900 – 15 December 1925) was a Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics. In 1920 he finished fourth in the middleweight class after losing the bronze medal bout to Moe Herscovitch Moe ' ...

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1894 births 1971 deaths Middleweight boxers Olympic boxers for Denmark Boxers at the 1920 Summer Olympics Danish male boxers Boxers from Copenhagen {{Denmark-boxing-bio-stub