Aage Torgensen

Rasmus Aage Ejnar Torgensen (born April 17, 1900 in Aarhus , † May 28, 1932 there ) was a Danish wrestler . He was vice European champion in 1929 in the Greco-Roman style featherweight.

Career

Aage Torgensen was a Danish athlete who the athlete club (AK) Aarhus with the struggle began. Later he switched to "Dan" Copenhagen . Torgensen developed into one of the best European wrestlers in the Greco-Roman style in the 1920s. In 1920 he was used at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in featherweight. He showed excellent fights there, scored four victories and just barely missed the bronze medal with 4th place.

His next start in an international championship was the 1922 World Cup in Stockholm . Here he wrestled in the bantamweight and lost after two wins against Eduard Pütsep from Estonia and Fritjof Svensson from Sweden and came in 5th place.

At the Olympic Games in Paris in 1924 , Torgensen achieved two featherweight victories again. Among the wrestlers he beat was Osvald Käpp , the strong Estonian. The two Finns Aleksanteri Toivola and Kalle Anttila were too strong for him. After defeats against these two wrestlers Aage was eliminated after the 5th round and reached the 8th place.

Torgensen then achieved the greatest success of his career at the 1929 European Championships in Dortmund . After four wins, he was defeated by the Swede Folke Hernström in the final and won the silver medal .

In 1926 Aage Torgensen wrestled in Copenhagen in an international match against Germany against Ernst Steinig from ASV Heros Dortmund and suffered a shoulder defeat against him.

Aage, who was Danish featherweight champion five times, died suddenly of blood poisoning in 1932.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantam weight, then up to 58 kg body weight, Fe = feather weight, 1920 to 60 kg, then up to 62 kg body weight)

• 1920, 4th place , OS in Antwerp , GR, Fe, with victories over Eduard Pütsep , Estonia , Bovis, France , Adrian Brian, USA and Frantisek Rezak, Poland and defeats against Fritjof Svensson , Sweden and Heiki Kähkönen , Finland ;
• 1922, 5th place , World Championships in Stockholm , GR, Ba, with a victory over Jozsef Pongracz, Hungary and defeats against Eduard Pütsep and Fritjof Svensson;
• 1924, 8th place , OS in Paris , GR, Fe, with victories over Gerolamo Quaglia, Italy and Osvald Käpp , Estonia and defeats against Aleksanteri Toivola and Kalle Anttila , bde. Finland;
• 1929, 2nd place , EM in Dortmund , GR, Fe, with victories over Antons, Latvia , Karl Stiedl, Austria , Jozsef Tasnady , Hungary and Eugen Fleischmann , Czechoslovakia and one defeat against Folke Hernström , Sweden

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• various issues of the specialist magazine Athletik from 1929 to 1932

Web links

• Profile of Aage Torgensen at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Aage Torgensen in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )