Wollmar Filip Boström (15 June 1878 – 7 November 1956) was a Swedish diplomat 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 competed at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics in singles and men's doubles and won a bronze medal in the doubles in 1908, finishing fifth in three other events. He was son to Governor of

Södermanland County Södermanland County ( sv, Södermanlands län) is a county or '' län'' on the southeast coast of Sweden. In the local Sörmlandic dialects it is virtually universally shortened and pronounced as Sörmlands län, or simply Sörmland, which is t ...

Filip Boström and nephew to Prime Minister

Erik Gustaf Boström Erik Gustaf Bernhard Boström (11 February 1842 – 21 February 1907) was a Swedish landowner and politician who was a member of the Swedish Parliament (1876–1907) and the longest-serving Prime Minister of Sweden of the 19th century. He ...

. In 1903 he started working at the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1909–13 he served as president of the Swedish Tennis Association, and in 1918–22 was a cabinet secretary. From 1925 till 1945 he was the Swedish minister in Washington.Wollmar Boström
Swedish Olympic Committee

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1878 births 1956 deaths Swedish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in tennis Ambassadors of Sweden to the United States Ambassadors of Sweden to Spain Ambassadors of Sweden to Portugal Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub