Hjalmar Nygaard (boxer)

Hjalmar Nygaard (12 June 1900 – died 29 October 1936 in Boston) was a Norwegian boxer who competed in the 1920 Summer Olympics.^[1] In 1920, he was eliminated in the first round of the bantamweight class after losing his fight to Henri Ricard. Nygaard moved to Boston in 1923 and worked as a bookbinder. He died after falling while painting a house.^{[2] [3]}