Bengt Fahlkvist

Bengt Fahlkvist (born April 15, 1922 in Helgesta , Södermanland , † March 7, 2004 in Bettna , Flen ) was a Swedish wrestler . He was a bronze medalist at the 1948 Olympic Games in London .

Career

Bengt Fahlkvist started as a teenager when Ringer Club KB Huddinge with the rings . He had just turned 17 when World War II broke out. For this reason, he, who had now established himself in the Swedish wrestling elite, had to wait seven years before he could start at an international championship.

At the first European championship after the end of the war, which took place in Stockholm in 1946 in free style, Bengt started in the light heavyweight division. He managed to win the European title with four victories.

At the Olympic Games in London in 1948 , Beng started again in free style in the light heavyweight division. He achieved four wins again, but he also suffered two defeats against Fritz Stöckli from Switzerland and Henry Wittenberg from the United States and thus won the bronze medal.

In the meantime, Bengt in Sweden had tough competitors in Bertil Antonsson , Tor Nilsson , Viking Palm and Karl-Erik Nilsson who made him contest the starting places in international championships. Bengt succeeded in his further career only to qualify for the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 for the heavyweight in the Greco-Roman style. In the style he did not like so much, he came in 6th place with one victory over the Italian Guido Fontani and two defeats.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, back then up to 87 kg or over 87 kg body weight)

• 1946, 1st place , EM in Stockholm , F, Hs, with victories over Henry Bury, Belgium , Gyula Bóbis , Hungary , Muharrem Candaş , Turkey and Fritz Stöckli , Switzerland ;
• 1948, bronze medal , OS in London , F, Hs, with victories over Fernand Payotte, Canada , Spyros Defteraios, Greece , Oscar Verona, Italy and P. Morton, South Africa and defeats to Fritz Stöckli and Henry Wittenberg , USA ;
• 1952, 6th place , OS in Helsinki , GR, S, with a victory over Guido Fantoni , Italy and defeats against Josef Růžička , Czechoslovakia and Johannes Kotkas , USSR

Most important international battles

• 1952, Germany against Sweden , GR, S, shoulder winner over Willi Liebern ,
• 1952, Germany against Sweden, F, S, point winner over Willi Waltner ,
• 1954, Sweden against USSR, F, S, point defeat against Arsen Mekokishvili ,
• 1954, Sweden against USSR, GR, S, point defeat against Johannes Kotkas

Swedish championships

Bengt Fahlkvist was Swedish light heavyweight champion in free style in 1946 and 1947 and was also seven times Swedish runner-up in light heavyweight and heavyweight in both styles.

swell

• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976
• various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from the years 1949 to 1954

Web links

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