Ingemar Johansson ensuring not only in Sweden.
An entire sport has lost a hero.
Former World Champion Ingemar Johansson died January 30,76 years old.
Ingemar Johansson,Ingo with the entire Swedish people,celebrating his life´s triumph at Yankee Stadium in New York June 26,1959.
3 million Swedes spent the bright summer night in front of their radios,and rejoiced at that Sweden had its first World Champion in heavyweight boxing.
Autumn 1952,Ingemar Johansson began a remarkable professional career that made him known throughtout the world.
He took the European Championship title in the heavyweight when he knocked Italy´s Francesco Cavicchi.
His dreaded right,´´Tors hammer´´,gave him the World Cup chance by reliminating undefeated American Eddie Machen before 53.000 spectators in New Ullevi in Gothenburg,1958.
June 26,1959,it was time for the title match in New York.
The referee stopped the match in the third round since Ingo knocked Floyd Patterson seven times.
It was victory on a technical knockout.
For nearly a year was Ingemar Johansson the world´s premier heavyweight boxer.
In 1959,he was selected to the year´s biggest athlete of the news agency AP-
Swedish Sports Academy chose him in the millennium to 1900´s third best Swedish athletic after Björn Borg and Ingemar Stenmark.
In 2005,he receivd the Academy Honorary price,but could not come to receive it.
2 years earlier had Ingemar Johansson suffered a form of dementia,Alzheimer´s disease.
Experts thought that the disease could be caused by the blows to the head he received during his boxing career.
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