Johan Petter Åhlén

Johan Petter Åhlén
birthday	April 13, 1879
place of birth	Åhl
date of death	March 31, 1939
Place of death	Atlantic Ocean
Career
nation	Sweden
society	Are curling club
Playing hand	right
Medal table
Olympic medals 0 × 1 × 0 ×
winter Olympics silver 1924 Chamonix

Johan Petter Åhlén (born April 13, 1879 in Åhl , † March 31, 1939 on the Atlantic Ocean ) was a Swedish entrepreneur and curler .

Johan Petter Åhlén (1910s)

Johan Petter Åhlén was originally called Andersson , but changed this very common name from the name of his birthplace Åhl to Åhlén. In 1899 he founded the mail order company Åhlén & Holm together with Erik Holm in the town, which has since been renamed Insjön , which quickly became the most important in Scandinavia, in 1906 with Erik Åkerlund the book publisher Åhlén & Åkerlunds , which was taken over by Bonnier in 1929 , and the department store chain in 1932 Tempo , which still exists today under the name Åhléns .

Åhlén also played curling at the Åre curling club and took part with the Swedish team at the 1st Olympic Winter Games in Chamonix in 1924 , where the team won the silver medal.

Johan Petter Åhlén died in 1939 while on a boat trip to New York on the Atlantic Ocean .

Sporting successes

• 2nd place Olympic Winter Games 1924

Web links

• Johan Petter Åhlén in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )