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Sport
  
Weightlifting

Club
  
Orebro AK

Name
  
Gosta Magnusson


Gosta Magnusson

Born
  
13 September 1915
Orebro, Sweden

Died
  
25 November 1948 (aged 33) Orebro, Sweden

Klas Gösta Natanael Magnusson (13 September 1915 – 25 November 1948) was a Swedish light heavyweight weightlifter. In 1948 he won a European title and a bronze Olympic medal 1948 Summer Olympics in London. An avid ice angler, Magnusson drowned later that year after stepping on weak ice in his home district.

References

Gösta Magnusson Wikipedia