Sören Claeson

Sören Ove Claesson ( born February 9, 1959 in Lidköping ) is a former Swedish wrestler.

Career

Sören Claesson began when Atthletenklub Linköping at the age of six years with the rings. He was highly talented and belonged in the respective age groups in the youth and junior level soon among the best wrestlers in Sweden. He wrestled in two styles, but focused on senior level in international championships mostly on the Greco- Roman style. The coach, which he owed ​​the greatest progress, Lennart Lundell was. Soren was 1.79 m tall and fought at a body weight of 85 kg usually middleweight. His debut on the international wrestling mat he gave in 1979 with a third place finish at the Junior World Championships in Haparanda in the Middleweight, Greco- Roman style. A year later he finished fourth at the Junior European Championships in Oulu. He had it almost exclusively to do even then well prepared wrestlers from the Eastern bloc countries, which could train under professional conditions and had to pay little attention to their future careers during their sports career.

For this reason, services for the wrestler from the western states are so admirable that managed to break into the ranks of the Eastern Bloc wrestler. Sören Claesson was one of them. In some championships from 1980 to 1985, he landed in front of the field and missed fourth place barely a medal. But even among the Swedish middleweight wrestlers had tough opponents, led by Frank Andersson, Leif Andersson, Christer Gulldén and Magnus Fredriksson.

His greatest achievement was winning the Olympic bronze medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles, where he managed a victory over Olympic champion from 1976 Momir Petkovic from Yugoslavia.

The results of international championships and some other tournaments where Sören Claesson took part, are read in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Style, F = Freestyle, Mi = middleweight, then to 82 kg body weight)

Swedish Championships

Sören Claesson was Swedish champion in Greco -Roman style in the years 1981, 1982, 1983 and 1985 and in free style in the years 1977, 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1984, always at middleweight.