Tore Hem

Goals Hem ( born November 12, 1945 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian wrestler.

Career

Goals Hem began as a teenager in Oslo with the rings. He soon became a member of the then leading Norwegian Ringer Association Sportsklubben 09 Oslo. He concentrated on the Greco- Roman style, and won in all age groups (youth, juniors, seniors ) in the course of his career total of 20 Norwegian championship. In the senior he was in the years 1968-1976 nine consecutive times Norwegian champion. He was also one of the first Norwegian wrestler who rose after 1945 in the advanced international Ringer class and won at international championships medals.

In 1965 he raced in Tampere for the first time at a World Cup. As a young athlete, he had this light heavyweight defeats against Ferenc Kiss from Hungary and the Japanese Kenjiro Hiraki accept and landed on the 15th Place. Not much better he fared at the European Championships 1966 in Essen, where so much he lost his light heavyweight fights against Aimo Mäenpää from Finland and Czesław Kwieciński from Poland and only reached the 14th place.

Far more successful cut goals Hem then at the European Championships 1967 in Minsk, where he finished in 6th place and amongst other things draw wrestled against the strong Yugoslav Josip Corak and at the World Championships the same year in Bucharest, where he even came in 5th place in the light heavyweight division, from. After a ninth place finish at the 1968 European Championship in Vasteras, where he lost to Bojan Radev from Bulgaria and Per Svensson from Sweden, two absolute world class wrestlers, he cut at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City with a 5th place again excellent. He defeated there Caj Malmberg from Finland and Waclaw Ostrowski from Poland and fought draw against Per Svensson.

Continued to improve, he then showed up at the World Championship 1969 in Mar del Plata, which was held this year before the European Championships. He fought there, after a weight class reform by the FILA heavyweight wrestling, among other things, against the Swede Lennart Eriksson and the Romanians Nicolae Martinescu undecided and came after a defeat against Stefan Petrov from Bulgaria to an excellent 4th place. At the European Championships in 1969 in Modena goals Hem used in the heavyweight division, the fact that there were almost all Eastern Bloc countries not at the start and won with four wins and one defeat against Josip Corak, where he lost the final on points, a European Championship silver medal.

1970 lacked goals Hem injury in international championships. At the World Championships in 1971 in Sofia, but he was at the start and came back with wins over Daniel Vernik from Argentina and Willi Williams of the United States and defeats against Vasily Merkulov from the USSR and the reigning world champion Per Svensson on the 8th Place. In 1972, he disappointed though at the European Championships in Katowice, where he finished 9th overall after defeats against Fredi Albrecht from the GDR and Andrzej Skrzydlewski from Poland, but achieved at the Olympic Games in Munich in the heavyweight division with the 6th place again an excellent result. He beat the world champion from 1970 Per Svensson and the Finns Aimo Mäenpää. Against Christ Ignatow from Bulgaria and Nikolai Yakovenko from the USSR he lost.

A very good result achieved goals Hem again at the European Championship 1975 in Ludwigshafen. He won there against Zdenek Chara from Czechoslovakia and Markku Virtanen from Finland and came thus to an excellent 5th place. Even better, he retired from then at the European Championships in 1976 in Leningrad, where he even defeated two wrestlers with Kamen Losanow Goranow from Bulgaria and Andrzej Skrzydlewski from Poland from the strong Eastern bloc countries. He came so behind Nikolai Balboschin from the USSR and Nicolae Martinescu, against which he had lost in the finals, the 3rd spot and thus won his second medal at an international championship.

At the end of his career goals Hem then reached at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal in the heavyweight division again with victories over Fredi Albrecht and Yasunari Akiyama from Japan and after defeats against Brad Rheingans from the United States and Kamen Losanow Goranow a very good 5th place.

International success

(all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European, Light Heavyweight until 1968-97 kg thereafter up to 90 kg body weight, heavy weight, from 1969 up to 100 kg body weight)

Swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships FILA, 1976
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Science at the University of Leipzig,
  • Journal Athletics
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