Asbjørn Berg-Hansen was a Norwegian

Norway

Norway , officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a Nordic unitary constitutional monarchy whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula, Jan Mayen, and the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard and Bouvet Island. Norway has a total area of and a population of about 4.9 million...

 boxer

Boxing

Boxing, also called pugilism, is a combat sport in which two people fight each other using their fists. Boxing is supervised by a referee over a series of between one to three minute intervals called rounds...

 who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics

1936 Summer Olympics

The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...

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Amateur career

Norway's most successful flyweight boxer, winning eight national championships between 1936 and 1950 (no championships were held during the war) - seven in the flyweigh class, and one in bantam.

Olympic results

In 1936 he competed in the flyweight class

Boxing at the 1936 Summer Olympics - Men's flyweight

The men's flyweight event was part of the boxing programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics. The weight class was the lightest contested, and allowed boxers of up to 112 pounds . The competition was held from Monday, August 10, 1936 to Saturday, August 15, 1936.Twenty-four boxers from 24 nations...

 and lost in the round of 16.

• Defeated Alfred Russell
  Alfred Russell
  Alfred "Alf" Russell was a British boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Asbjørn Berg-Hansen.-External links:**...
  
   (UK) points
• Lost to Louis Laurie
  Louis Laurie
  Louis "Lou" Daniel Laurie was an American boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he won the bronze medal in the flyweight class after winning the third place fight against Alfredo Carlomagno....
  
   (USA) points

Honors

Norwegian Boxing Federation's gold watch, NBF's merit medal, NBF's honour badge, The King's Trophy for flyweight boxing and The King's Trophy for bantam boxing.

Trivia

He was a member of the first official boxing contest between England and Norway on December 8, 1935 in the Oslo Colosseum; his opponent was Alfred Russell

Alfred Russell

Alfred "Alf" Russell was a British boxer who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he was eliminated in the first round of the flyweight class after losing his fight to Asbjørn Berg-Hansen.-External links:**...

, which he would meet again a year later in the Olympics.