Arne Robertsson

Arne Alf Robert "Robban" Robertsson (born March 23, 1942 in Lidköping , † January 29, 1991 ibid) was a Swedish wrestler . He was a three-time Olympian and medalist at World and European Championships.

Career

Robertsson started wrestling at Lidköpings AS (Atletsällskap) as a teenager . He remained loyal to this club throughout his career. He was a blond giant who grew up into a full-blown heavyweight and started in both styles, the Greco-Roman and the freestyle.

In 1964 Arne Robertsson was the first Swedish freestyle champion. In 1966 he even won this title in both styles. In the course of his long career he was a total of 21 Swedish champions. He won 10 titles in Greco-Roman style and 11 in freestyle. His main competitors in those years in Sweden were Ragnar Svensson and Lennart Persson . Since Ragnar Svensson dominated the scene in Sweden in the Greco-Roman style, Arne Robertsson's international career began in freestyle.

He took 11th place at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 in the heavyweight division after a draw against Masanori Saito from Japan and defeats to ex-world champion Hamit Kaplan from Turkey and the 1960 Olympic champion Wilfried Dietrich from the Federal Republic of Germany . It can also be noted that Arne Robertsson was not exactly lucky in this competition.

At the European Championships in Karlsruhe in 1966 , his next start in an international championship, Arne Robertsson finished 7th in the heavyweight division with a draw against Bohumil Kubát from Czechoslovakia and a loss to Alexander Medvedev from the Soviet Union . At the European Championships in 1967 in Istanbul, he cut roughly the same as at the European Championships in 1966. He finished 6th in freestyle. He lost after a draw against the Hungarian László Nyers again against Wilfried Dietrich and had to admit defeat to the Czech Bohumil Kubát.

In 1968 Arne Robertsson started at the European Freestyle Championships in Skopje . He fought three draws there, against Peter Germer from the GDR , against Bohumil Kubát and against Roland Bock from the FRG. But he had scored more than 6 fault points and, although he was unbeaten, had to retire after the 3rd round. He only finished 9th. He started again in 1968 at the Olympic Games and finished 10th in Mexico City in freestyle after defeats to Abulfazil Anvari from Iran and Larry Kristoff from the United States.

In 1969 he won his first medal at an international championship. He came in 2nd place at the European Championships in Modena , where he started in the Greco-Roman style. He achieved this result with victories over Walter Kleemann from Denmark , Josef Schummer from Luxembourg and Giuseppe Marcucci from Italy . In the final fight against Omar Topuz from Turkey he had to accept a point defeat.

1970 Arne Robertsson came at the European Championships in Berlin (East) in the heavyweight division in Greco-Roman style after defeats against Petr Kment ( Czechoslovakia ) and József Csatári from Hungary only on the 8th place. He then ended his international wrestling career, insofar as it concerned participation in international championships, and was also not at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich at the start. At the national level, however, he struggled and finished well in some international tournaments.

In 1975 he started a comeback. The first international championship in which he took part again after his break was the European championship in the Greco-Roman style in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . But he lost both fights there and ended up in 7th place. The same thing happened to him at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal . Again he lost his fights against Roman Codreanu from Romania and Richard Wolff from Germany and came in 9th place.

Arne Robertsson achieved the greatest success of his career in 1977 when he won the Greco-Roman heavyweight championship in Gothenburg behind Nikola Dinew from Bulgaria and Oleksandr Kolchynskyj from the Soviet Union, ahead of Einar Gundersen from Norway and János Rovnyai from Hungary and Prvoslav Ilic from Yugoslavia took 3rd place. Individual results from this championship are not known.

After this great success, he finally ended his international wrestling career. He won his last Swedish championship in 1980 at the age of 38. Arne Robertsson died in 1991 at the age of 49.

International success

year	space	competition	style	Weight class
1964	11.	OS in Tokyo	F.	Heavy	with a draw against Masanori Saito ( Japan ) and defeats against Hamit Kaplan ( Turkey ) and Wilfried Dietrich ( FRG )
1965	5.	Klippan tournament	GR	Heavy	behind Ragnar Svensson ( Sweden ), Roland Bock (FRG), Miodrag Citakovic ( Yugoslavia ) and Alan Törnström (Sweden)
1966	2.	Wladislaus Pytlasinski Memorial in Warsaw	GR	Heavy	behind Anatoly Kochnev ( Soviet Union ), in front of Edward Wojda ( Poland )
1966	7th	EM in Karlsruhe	F.	Heavy	after a draw against Bohumil Kubát ( Czechoslovakia ) and a defeat against Alexander Medvedev (USSR)
1967	3.	Alsia Cup in Sonderborg, Denmark	GR	Heavy	behind Popow (USSR) and Edward Wojda
1967	6th	EM in Istanbul	F.	Heavy	after a draw against László Nyers ( Hungary ) and defeats against Wilfried Dietrich and Bohumil Kubát
1968	1.	Intern. Tournament in Zakopane	F.	Heavy	before Tilew (Bulgaria)
1968	9.	EM in Skopje	F.	Heavy	after a draw against Peter Germer ( GDR ), Bohumil Kubát and Roland Bock (FRG)
1968	10.	OS in Mexico City	F.	Heavy	after defeats against Abulfazil Anvari ( Iran ) and Larry Kristoff ( USA )
1969	4th	Klippan tournament	GR	Super heavy	behind Roland Bock , Anatoli Kotschnew and Jürgen Klinge (GDR)
1969	3.	Wladiyslaus Pytlasinksi Memorial in Warsaw	GR	Super heavy	behind Abalenchev (USSR) and Edward Wojda
1969	2.	EM in Modena	GR	Super heavy	with victories over Walter Kleemann (Denmark), Josef Schummer ( Luxembourg ) and Giuseppe Marcucci ( Italy ) and one defeat against Omar Topuz ( Turkey )
1970	3.	Klippan tournament	GR	Super heavy	behind Nikolai Schmakow (USSR) and Horst Schwarz (FRG)
1970	8th.	EM in East Berlin	GR	Super heavy	after defeats against Petr Kment (Czechoslovakia) and József Csatári (Hungary)
1971	4th	Klippan tournament	GR	Super heavy	behind Alexandar Tomow (Bulgaria), Horst Schwarz and Victor Dolipschi ( Romania )
1972	2.	International tournament in Växjö	GR	Super heavy	behind Wilfried Dietrich , in front of Andre Burek (Czechoslovakia)
1975	1.	Mälar Cup in Västerås	GR	Super heavy	in front of Hannu Hämälainen ( Finland ) and Ebbe Thorup (Denmark)
1975	7th	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	GR	Super heavy	after defeats against Lorenz Hecher (FRG) and János Rovnyai (Hungary)
1976	5.	EM in Leningrad	GR	Super heavy	with a victory over Raimo Karlsson (Finland) and defeats against Alexandar Tomow and Roman Codreanu (Romania)
1976	9.	OS in Montreal	GR	Super heavy	after defeats against Roman Codreanu and Richard Wolff (FRG)
1977	2.	International tournament in Helsinki	GR	Super heavy	behind Henryk Tomanek (Poland), in front of Heinz Schäfer (FRG)
1977	3.	World Cup in Gothenburg	GR	Super heavy	behind Nikola Dinew (Bulgaria) and Oleksandr Koltschynskyj (USSR), in front of Einar Gundersen ( Norway ), János Rovnyai and Prvoslav Ilic (Yugoslavia)
1978	3.	Klippan tournament	GR	Super heavy	behind Awtandil Maissuradze (USSR) and Rangel Gerowski (Bulgaria)

Legend:

OS: Olympic Games
WM: World
Championship EM: European Championship
GR: Greco-Roman style
F: Freestyle
Heavyweight: up to 1968 over 97 kg
Super heavyweight: from 1969 over 100 kg

Swedish championships

Arne Robertsson won the following Swedish championship titles:

• Greco-Roman style: 1966, 1970, 1971, 1972, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1979, 1980
• Freestyle: 1964, 1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970, 1971, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships. 1976
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer
• Svensk Brottning 100 år. Published by the Swedish Wrestling Federation, 2009
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig (Note: This database shows an error in the result of the 1966 European Championship in Karlsruhe: Robertsson did not take 2nd place there, but only 7th place. The result was correct: 1. Alexander Medvedev, 2nd Lyutwi Dschiber Akhmedov, 3rd Giyasettin Yilmaz, 3rd Bohumil Kubát, 4th Gerd Volz, 5th Wieslaw Bochenski and 7th Arne Robertsson.Proof: Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA from 1976, page E-46)

Web links

• Arne Robertsson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )