Erik Alfred Ågren (3 January 1916 – 3 July 1985) was a
Swedish amateur
boxer. He won a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XI Olympiad () and officially branded as Berlin 1936, were an international multi-sport event held from 1 to 16 August 1936 in Berlin, then capital of Nazi Germany. Berlin won the bid to ...
and a silver medal as a welterweight at the
1939 European Amateur Boxing Championships.
[
Ågren's three brothers, Carl, ]Oscar
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and Ture Ågren, were also elite boxers who competed at the European level.[
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References
1916 births
1985 deaths
People from Strängnäs Municipality
Lightweight boxers
Olympic boxers for Sweden
Boxers at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
Olympic medalists in boxing
Swedish male boxers
Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Södermanland County
20th-century Swedish sportsmen
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