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Born | 4 February 1939 Västerås, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
Died | 1 September 2017 | (aged 78)||||||||||||||
Height | 189 cm (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||
Weight | 97 kg (214 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Club | IF Norden, Sala | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Knut Olof Lennart Eriksson (4 February 1939 – 1 September 2017) was a Swedish wrestler. At the 1969 World Championships he finished fourth in the unlimited-weight freestyle and won a bronze medal in the under 100 kg Greco-Roman contest. He competed in the light-heavyweight freestyle event at the 1964 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the second round by the eventual winner Aleksandr Medved. [1] [2]