Axel Grönberg

Rolf Axel Einar Grönberg ( born May 9, 1918 in Norberg, † April 23, 1988 in Stockholm) was a Swedish wrestler.

Career

Axel Grönberg began at the age of 12 years in Stockholm with the rings. He was a member of the Brottarblubs (BK) " Athens" Stockholm. Since the early 1940s he was part of the Swedish top class of middleweight wrestler. Axel Grönberg had multiple Swedish champion in Greco-Roman. Style and freestyle. He preferred the Greek -Roman style, but also went on in freestyle. In 1946, when after the Second World War international championships were held for the first time, he was there. In the following years he wrestled well prepared by the Finnish national coach of the Swedish wrestler Robert Oksa, with great success. He was 1948 and 1952 Olympic champion. Even in countries battles that were very popular at that time, he scored many successes, but had the mid-1950s but pay tribute to his age when he lost more often in such struggles. He subsequently went back on active wrestler sport. Axel Grönberg was a city employee and lived in Stockholm.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Style, F = Freestyle, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then to 79 kg or 87 kg body weight)

Swedish Championships

Axel Grönberg was Swedish champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division in the years 1944, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1951, 1953 and in the light heavyweight division in 1958; Swedish champion in free style at middleweight in 1944 he was, in 1946, 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950 and 1954

Main countries fighting

Swell

• DOCUMENTATION of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
• Journal athletics from the years 1948 to 1958
• Website of the Institute for Applied Training Science of the University of Leipzig