Career
He represented Finland at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and has also been training for the Helsinki Sailing Club (Finnish: Helsingfors Segelklubb) throughout most of his sporting career. His father and personal coach Jouko Lindgren shared bronze medals with Georg Tallberg in the same program at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow. As of September 2013, Lindgren is ranked northern
33 in the world for two-person dinghy class by the International Sailing Federation.
Lindgren competed as a skipper in the men"s 470 class at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London by finishing twenty-second and receiving a berth from the ISAF World Championships in Perth, Western Australia.