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Place of Birth: Lappeenranta, Southern Finland Regional State Administrative Agency, Finland
About Erkki Mallenius
- Erkki Aarno Mallenius (12 January 1928 – 2 July 2003) was a Finnish amateur boxer who won a bronze medal in the light welterweight division at the 1952 Olympics. Mallenius took up boxing in 1945 and in 1946 won the Finnish junior lightweight title.
- He never held a senior national title, and qualified to the Helsinki Olympics by winning the 1952 Olympic trials.
- At the Olympics he won his first two bouts, but broke a carpal bone in a hand in the second one, and hence withdrew from the semifinal and retired from boxing.
- He then worked as a boxing coach and a building contractor.
- In 2008 he was inducted into the Finnish Boxing Hall of Fame.
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