Ivar Johansson (wrestler), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Swedish amateur wrestler
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Place of Birth: Söderköping, Östergötland County, Sweden
About Ivar Johansson (wrestler)
- for the politician see Ivar Johansson (politician)Ivar Valentin Johansson (31 January 1903 – 4 August 1979) was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics.
- In 1932 he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman welterweight and freestyle middleweight events.
- Four years later he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman middleweight competition.At the 1932 Olympics Johansson first competed as a freestyle middleweight.
- Despite being a favorite, he lost his first bout to Kyösti Luukko.
- Yet he won his all other bouts by fall, while Luukko lost in the semifinals and finished second.
- Two days later he was scheduled to compete as a Greco-Roman welterweight.
- For this purpose he shed five kilograms of bodyweight by fasting and sweating in a sauna, yet relatively easily won all four bouts.
- Later the same year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet Gold Medal. Johansson never competed at the world championships.
- At the European championships he won nine titles in 1931–1939, six in Greco-Roman and three int freestyle wrestling.Johansson grew up in a rural area near Norrköping, where he built his strength by manual labor at a farm.
- He then moved to Norrköping city to work as a police officer and then as a wrestling coach.
- The annual wrestling award "Ivars Guldsko" was established in Sweden in his honor after his death.
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