Carl Westergren
Carl Oscar Westergren ( born October 13, 1895 in Malmö, † August 5, 1958 ) was a Swedish wrestler.
Life
Carl Westergren began in 1911 at the age of 16 years at the sports club IK Sparta Malmö with the rings and soon reached the national top. As a result of the First World War, however, he had to wait until 1920 for his first international success, which then was like an Olympic victory. From then on, success stringed success. With one exception, in 1924 at the Olympic Games in Paris, he wrestled exclusively in Greco- Roman style. His specialties were the Überstürzer from the front, as its inventor, he holds and the lateral through spin. He began his career as a middleweight, and grew over the years into the light heavyweight and heavyweight. He was stout figure, but very agile and dominated all tactical finesse. Carl Westergren was first a bus driver, and then rental car companies. After the end of his career he played like harness racing and entered as an artist on in theaters. For his contributions to the sport wrestler he was accepted as one of the first in the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame in September 2003.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, gr = Greco-Roman style, F = Freestyle, Mi = middleweight, light heavyweight HS =, S = Heavy weight)
National success
Westergren won several Swedish Championships and many international tournaments on the mats in Scandinavia, which was then still assembled the world's elite. His main opponents were Sweden's Gustav Lindquist, Ragnar Bohm Ernst Nilsson, Thure Sjöstedt, Rudolf Svensson and Johan Richthoff, but most went out of the way at the championships.