Name Axel Gronberg | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Olympic medals Wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics - Greco-Roman Middleweight People also search for Kalervo Rauhala, Ercole Gallegati, Muhlis Tayfur | ||
Rolf Axel "Acke" Ejnar Grönberg (9 May 1918 – 23 April 1988) was a Swedish wrestler, who won the Greco-Roman middleweight division at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.
Grönberg was raised in Norberg, but moved to Stockholm as a teenager. There he worked as a plumber 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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