Erkki Mallenius Explained

Birth Date:12 January 1928
Birth Place:Lappeenranta, Finland
Death Date:2 July 2003 (aged 75)
Death Place:Pori, Finland
Height:172 cm
Weight:63–70 kg
Sport:Boxing
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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.