Aarne Reini

Aarne Reini in 1943.

Aarne Eemili Reini (born August 6, 1906 in Vaasa , † February 23, 1974 ) was a Finnish wrestler .

Career

Aarne Eemili Reini grew up in the Finnish town of Vaasa, attended school there and began wrestling in the sports club "Vaasanen Kiisto", a club that belonged to the workers' sports association TUL. Aarne did an apprenticeship as a locksmith and soon competed for his club. The highlight of his early career was winning the silver medal at the 1931 Workers' Olympics in Vienna . In 1932 he joined the association "Voima-Veikot" Vaasa (VVV), a club that belonged to the Finnish Wrestling Association, which was a member of the World Wrestling Association. He was also able to start at the Olympic Games in 1932 and 1936 in Los Angeles and Berlin . Aarne Reini wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style and was European lightweight champion in 1933 and 1934. At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin he won the silver medal in the featherweight (61 kg body weight) in which he had to train because he had lost to Lauri Koskela at the Finnish lightweight championships in 1936 . Lauri Koskela, who became Olympic lightweight champion in 1936, was also his main competitor in Finland for the next few years . Aarne Reini, meanwhile a member of "Kisa-Veikot" Helsinki , was able to defeat him at the Finnish championships in 1935, 1937 and 1938. Nevertheless, Lauri Koskela was used at the European Championships in those years by the Finnish association. Aarne Reini then returned to the workers' sports association TUL and was its chairman from 1946 to 1949.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, back then up to 61 kg or 66 kg body weight, GR = Greco-Roman style)

• 1931, 2nd place , Workers Olympics in Vienna , GR, Fe, behind Hans Wittwer, Germany and in front of Vikko Lamppinen, Finland
• 1931, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Helsinki , GR, Le, before Huupponen u. No, bde. Finland ;
• 1932, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Helsinki , GR, Le, before Salin, Finland a. Eduard Sperling , Germany :
• 1932, 4th place , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Le, with victory over Silvio Tozzi, Italy a . Losses against Erik Malmberg , Sweden a . Eduard Sperling, Germany;
• 1933, 1st place , EM in Helsinki , GR, Le, with victories over Voldemar Väli , Estonia , Einar Karlsson, Sweden and Eduard Sperling;
• 1934, 1st place , EM in Rome , GR, Le, with victories over Imre Beke, Hungary , Marcel Lejeune, France , Dragomir Borlovan, Romania , Voldemar Väli, Abraham Kurland, Denmark a . despite a defeat by Eduard Sperling;
• 1936, silver medal , OS in Berlin , GR, Fe, with victories over Einar Karlsson, Ion Horvath, Romania , Erich Fincsus, Austria , Yasar Erkan, Turkey , Eugen Karcher, France a. a loss to Sebastian Hering , Germany

Finnish championships

• 1928, 1st place, GR, Fe, TUL;
• 1929, 2nd place, GR, Fe, TUL;
• 1931, 1st place, GR, Fe, TUL;
• 1932, 1st place, GR, Le, in front of Aleksander Toivola u. Arvo Salin;
• 1933, 1st place, GR, Le, before Kalle Lahtinen u. Eino Haapanen;
• 1934, 1st place, GR, Le, before V. Niemi u. Eino Haapanen;
• 1935, 1st place, GR, Le, before Lauri Koskela u. Reino Hiironen;
• 1936, 2nd place, GR, Le, behind Lauri Koskela u. before Kalle Pitkänen;
• 1937, 1st place, GR, Le, before Lauri Koskela u. Aate soini;
• 1938, 1st place, GR, Le before Aate Soini u. Lauri Koskela

Web links

• Aarne Reini in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )