Frithiof Mårtensson
Swedish wrestler (1884–1956)
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Born | 19 May 1884 Eslöv, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
Died | 20 June 1956 (aged 72) Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | 73 kg | ||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Club | IK Sparta, Malmö | ||||||||||||||
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Folke Frithiof Martens Mårtensson (19 May 1884 – 20 June 1956) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden.[1] He won the middleweight contests at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the unofficial 1909 European Championships in Malmö.[2][3]
After 1909 Mårtensson moved to Copenhagen for training as a dental technician and in 1913 to the United States. Two years later he returned to Stockholm, where he died in 1956.[3]
References
External links
- Frithiof Mårtensson at the International Wrestling Database
- Frithiof Mårtensson at Olympedia
- Frithiof Mårtensson at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
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- 1908 Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE)
- 1912 Claes Johanson (SWE)
- 1920 Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1924 Edvard Westerlund (FIN)
- 1928 Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1932 Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1936 Ivar Johansson (SWE)
- 1948 Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1952 Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1956 Givi Kartozia (URS)
- 1960 Dimitar Dobrev (BUL)
- 1964 Branislav Simić (YUG)
- 1968 Lothar Metz (GDR)
- 1972 Csaba Hegedűs (HUN)
- 1976 Momir Petković (YUG)
- 1980 Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1984 Ion Draica (ROM)
- 1988 Mikhail Mamiashvili (URS)
- 1992 Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1996 Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2000 Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2004 Aleksey Mishin (RUS)
- 2008 Andrea Minguzzi (ITA)
- 2012 Alan Khugaev (RUS)
- 2016 Davit Chakvetadze (RUS)
- 2020 Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 1908: 73 kg
- 1912–1928: 75 kg
- 1932–1960: 79 kg
- 1964–1968: 87 kg
- 1972–1996: 82 kg
- 2000: 85 kg
- 2004–2012: 84 kg
- 2016: 85 kg
- 2020–present: 87 kg
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