Frithiof MÃ¥rtensson
Folke Frithiof Martens Mårtensson ( born May 19, 1884 in Eslöv, † 20 June 1956 in Stockholm) was a Swedish wrestler. He was Olympic champion in 1908 in London in Greco-Roman wrestling in the middleweight division.
Career
Frithiof Mårtensson grew up in Eslöv and began with the rings. But because of the better ways he soon moved to a large sports club IK Malmö. If no individual results from his early period are known wrestler, he 's got to be the best Swedish wrestlers in Greco-Roman. Style have heard, because he was sent in 1908 to the Olympic Games in London. He wrestled there in the middleweight division ( in London in 1908 to 73 kg body weight). In London, he triumphed over Josef Jakoubek from Bohemia, G. Bradshaw from the UK, Axel Larsson from Sweden, Anders Andersen from Denmark and Mauritz Andersson from Sweden and thus won the gold medal.
After these Olympics, he started in December 1908 in Vienna at an unofficial world championship at middleweight ( 75 kg body weight). In this World Cup was another Regulations as at the Olympic Games in London. While a wrestler eliminated after his first defeat at the Olympics, he retired from the World Cup after his third defeat. This meant that the participants in the World Championship had to dispute a lot of fights. In order to illustrate this here all the battles called the Frithiof Mårtensson had to contest in Vienna: he triumphed over Heinrich Schinner, Josef Pecka, Simon Jellik, Joseph Drozda, all Austria and Christoph Offensive, Germany, struggled against Harald Christensen, Denmark and Andreas Mrosek, Austria draw and lost to Alois Toduschek, Robert Dirry and Stephan Czerny from Austria. He finished in 5th place. The winner in this World Cup Robert Dirry before Alois Totuscheck and Harald Christensen. Dirry and Totuscheck had not taken part in London at the Olympics. Harald Christensen started there with no success at light heavyweight.
In 1909, Frithiof Mårtensson started at an unofficial European Championships in Malmo in the middleweight division and won the title there.
In 1910 he was also in an unofficial European Championships in Budapest in the lightweight (up to 70 kg body weight) at the start, but retired there with a defeat in his third fight against the German Max Beeskow out and only came on the 7th Place.
Other results are not known.
International success
(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greek and Roman. Styles, EM = European Championship, Le = Lightweight, Mi = Medium weight up to 70 kg or 73 kg/75 kg body weight)