Emil Väre

Eemeli ( Emil ) Ernst Väre ( born September 28, 1885 in Kärkölä; † January 31, 1974 ) was a Finnish wrestler.

Career

Emil Väre was one of the best Finnish wrestler from the early years of modern wrestling. He was born in Viipuri and was a member of the local wrestlers Club " Tarmo ". In 1909 he was Finnish champion in Greco-Roman wrestling in the class to 73 kg body weight for the first time.

Emil Väre participated in four international championships, of which he won. In 1911 he became world champion in Helsinki middleweight (up to 73 kg body weight). He denied doing 10 fights, won seven of them and wrestled three times in a draw. In 1912, he won the European Championships in Budapest in the middleweight ( 75 kg body weight). Here are victories over Rezsö Steiner, Hungary, Gyula Zólyomi, Hungary, Max Beeskow, Germany and Arpad Miskey, Hungary, documented.

At the Olympic Games the same year in Stockholm he won the gold medal in the lightweight ( to 67.5 kg of body weight) with wins about Jan Balej, Bohemia, Jean Bouffechoux, France, Georg Baumann, Russia, Alessandro Covre, Italy, Edvin Matiasson, Sweden, and Gustaf Malmstrom, Sweden. Against Oscar Kaplur from Russia he had been defeated, but no longer had a negative impact for him.

Eight years later, at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, Emil Väre succeeded in convincing style a second Olympic gold medal. He shouldered his five opponents Charles Term Nordenfeldt from Denmark, Fristz Christiansen from Denmark, Rohon from France, Frits Janssens from Belgium and Taavi Tamminen from Finland.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, European Championship EM =, GR = Greek and Roman. Style, Le = Lightweight, Mi = middleweight)

Finnish Championships

Emil Väre was Finnish champion in the middleweight division in the years 1909 and 1911. 1910 he finished 3rd.

Swell

  • DOCUMENTATION of Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Yearbook 1972 of the German Federal Ringer, athletics -Verlag Karlsruhe, 1972
  • Carl Diem: The Olympic Games. Berlin, 1912, Reprint of the Kassel sports publisher, 1990
  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
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