Arnold Bögli
Arnold Bögli (* 30th May 1897 , † unknown) was a Swiss wrestler and oscillators . He won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling in light heavyweight at the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam .
Career
Arnold Bögli from Bern has been involved in the Swiss national sport of wrestling since his youth. He's got some good results in this sport. So he won the Bernese Cantonal Wrestling Festival in 1922 in Herzogenbuchsee and in 1925 in Bern. In 1925 he took 3rd place at the Swiss Agricultural Exhibition in Bern and also came 3rd at the 1926 Swiss Wrestling and Alpine Festival in Lucerne . But he could never achieve the title of wrestling king.
Since swinging has a lot in common with freestyle wrestling, he also started at championships in freestyle wrestling. In 1928 he was part of the Swiss team that started at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam. He started there in the light heavyweight division, defeating Heywood Edwards from the United States and Henri Lefebvre from France . In the final he was defeated by Thure Sjöstedt from Sweden and won the silver medal . Further results from his wrestling career are not known.
literature
- Olle Larsson, Peter Irdén: Documentation of International Wrestling Championships 1896–1976. FILA, Lausanne 1976.
Web links
- Arnold Bögli in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Profile of Arnold Bögli at the Institute for Applied Training Science
Individual evidence
- ↑ The light heavyweight wrestling had a weight limit of 87 kg (today 96 kg) in 1928, there is no weight class division for swinging.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bögli, Arnold |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss wrestlers and wrestlers |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 30, 1897 |
| DATE OF DEATH | 20th century or 21st century |