Gösta Frändfors, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish amateur wrestler
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Place of Birth: Stockholm, Sweden
About Gösta Frändfors
- Gösta Valdemar Jönsson (later Frändfors, 25 November 1915 – 8 August 1973) was a Swedish wrestler.
- He competed at the 1936 and 1948 Summer Olympics and won a bronze and a silver medal in the featherweight and lightweight freestyle divisions, respectively.
- He won three more medal at the European championships of 1937–1947, competing in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.
- In 1947, after becoming the European champion in the Greco-Roman 67 kg division, he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. He was born Gösta Valdemar Jönsson, and in 1941 changed his last name to Frändfors.
- He retired from competitions in October 1950, and in 1951 played the a minor role in the film Spöke på semester.
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