Arnie Sundberg was a lightweight lifter at the 1932 Los Angeles Olympics. Sundberg was born in Oregon to a Swedish father and Finnish mother, who emigrated to the United States via Winnipeg, Manitoba. Sundberg represented the Multnomah Athletic Club of Portland, Oregon. He was AAU Champion at 148 lbs (67 kg) in 1928 and 1932, and at 165 lbs (75 kg) in 1930-31.
Sundberg worked in the railroad business in Clatskanie, Oregon, later started his own company, Arnie Sundberg & Sons. One son, Arnie, Jr., was a US Marine veteran who earned three Purple Hearts during the Vietnam War, and later established the Clatskanie Veterans Memorial in his hometown.
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