Rolf Axel "Acke" Ejnar Grönberg (9 May 1918 – 23 April 1988) was a Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler, who won the Greco-Roman middleweight division at the

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and

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. Grönberg was raised in Norberg, but moved to Stockholm as a teenager. There he worked as a

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and masseur, and started wrestling following his elder brothers Fritz and Harald. Besides his Olympic medals he won a world title in 1950, three European Championship medals, as well as 16 national titles between 1944 and 1958.

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* * * * 1918 births 1988 deaths Olympic wrestlers for Sweden Wrestlers at the 1948 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Swedish male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in wrestling World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics European Wrestling Championships medalists 20th-century Swedish sportsmen People from Norberg {{Sweden-wrestling-bio-stub