Emil Väre
Väre at the 1912 Olympics | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Emil Ernst Väre | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 28 September 1885 Kärkölä, Grand duchy of Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 31 January 1974 (aged 88) Kärkölä, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Viipurin Voimailijat, Vyborg | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emil Ernst Väre[1] (28 September 1885 – 31 January 1974) was a Finnish wrestler who won the gold medals in the lightweight class at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics.[2]
Väre held the 1911 World title, the 1912 unofficial European title, and 1909 and 1911 national titles. Between 1912 and 1916 he won all his wrestling bouts. He retired after the 1920 Olympics to become a wrestling referee and coach. In the 1920s he acted a president, general-secretary, treasurer and vice-president of his wrestling club Viipurin Voimailijat and was a board member of the Finnish Wrestling Federation.[3]
References
External links
- Emil Väre at databaseOlympics.com
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- 1908 Enrico Porro (ITA)
- 1912 Emil Väre (FIN)
- 1920 Emil Väre (FIN)
- 1924 Oskari Friman (FIN)
- 1928 Lajos Keresztes (HUN)
- 1932 Erik Malmberg (SWE)
- 1936 Lauri Koskela (FIN)
- 1948 Gustav Freij (SWE)
- 1952 Shazam Safin (URS)
- 1956 Kyösti Lehtonen (FIN)
- 1960 Avtandil Koridze (URS)
- 1964 Kazım Ayvaz (TUR)
- 1968 Muneji Munemura (JPN)
- 1972 Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS)
- 1976 Suren Nalbandyan (URS)
- 1980 Ștefan Rusu (ROM)
- 1984 Vlado Lisjak (YUG)
- 1988 Levon Julfalakyan (URS)
- 1992 Attila Repka (HUN)
- 1996 Ryszard Wolny (POL)
- 2000 Filiberto Azcuy (CUB)
- 2004 Farid Mansurov (AZE)
- 2008 Steeve Guénot (FRA)
- 2012 Kim Hyeon-woo (KOR)
- 2016 Davor Štefanek (SRB)
- 2020 Mohammad Reza Geraei (IRI)
- 1908: 66.5 kg
- 1912–1928: 67.5 kg
- 1932–1936: 66 kg
- 1948–1960: 67 kg
- 1964–1968: 70 kg
- 1972–1996: 68 kg
- 2000: 69 kg
- 2004–2016: 66 kg
- 2020–present: 67 kg
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