Bengt Johansson (wrestler)

Karl Bengt Johansson (born January 4, 1926 in Hallsberg , † April 9, 2008 in Arboga ) was a Swedish wrestler . He was world champion in 1950 in the Greco-Roman style flyweight.

Career

Bengt Johansson grew up in Hallsberg and began wrestling as a teenager in 1940 at the local "Brottning Klub" (wrestling club). In 1948 he moved to "Göteborgs Athletklub" because he had better development opportunities there. In 1949 he was used for the first time Swedish flyweight champion in Greco-Roman style and at the European Championship of the same year in Istanbul in free style. Among six participants, he won the bronze medal there by defeating the 1948 Olympic champion Lennart Viitala from Finland .

In Gothenburg Bengt was then intensively prepared for the World Cup, which took place in Stockholm in 1950 . The main part of the fact that Bengt in Stockholm with five wins and only two missing points world champion in Greco-Roman. The flyweight style was largely carried out by the Finnish coach of the Swedish national team Robert Oksa.

Also at the 1951 World Cup, which took place in Helsinki and was held in free style, Bengt won a medal, the bronze medal. A year later he was also at the Olympic Games held in the same city. He started in the Greco-Roman style with three wins on points, but lost in the fourth round against the Sicilian Ignazio Fabra and had to retire from the competition. But at least he took a good 5th place.

Four years later, Bengt was again at the Olympic Games. In Melbourne he started again in the flyweight division, but retired after the second round because of defeats to Borivoje Vukov from Yugoslavia and Dumitru Pârvulescu from Romania .

He then ended his international wrestling career, but was still active at the national level for a few years. In 1962 he was the last Swedish champion in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

• 1949, 3rd place , EM in Istanbul , GR, Fl, with a victory over Lennart Viitala , Finland a . Defeats against Mansoor Raissi, Iran a . Ali Yücel , Turkey ;

• 1950, 1st place , World Championships in Stockholm , GR, Fl, with victories over Lennart Viitala, Eugen Kronewetter, Czechoslovakia , Giovanni Cocco , Italy , Mohamed El Ward, Egypt a . Ali Yücel;

• 1951, 3rd place , EM in Helsinki , GR, F, with victories over Giordano De Giorgi, Italy a. Heinrich Weber , FRG a . Losses against Mahmoud Mollaghassemi , Iran a. Ali Yücel;

• 1952, 5th place , OS in Helsinki, GR, Fl, with victories over Franz Brunner, Austria , Edmond Faure, France a . Maurice Mewis , Belgium a . a loss to Ignazio Fabra , Italy;

• 1956, 9th place , OS in Melbourne , GR, Fl, with defeats against Borivoje Vukov , Yugoslavia a . Dumitru Pârvulescu , Romania

Most important international battles

• 1952, FRG against Sweden , GR, Fl, point winner over Heinrich Weber ,
• 1952, FRG against Sweden, GR, Fl, point winner over Georg Schwaiger ,
• 1954, Sweden against USSR , GR, Fl, point defeat against I. Karawajew,
• 1954, Sweden against USSR, F, Fl, point defeat against Mirian Zalkalamanidse ,
• 1954, Sweden against Finland , GR, Fl, shoulder winner over Toivanen,
• 1954, Sweden against Finland, GR, Fl, shoulder winner over Nykänen,
• 1955, USSR against Sweden, GR, Fl, point defeat against Barbetjan,
• 1956, Sweden against USSR, GR, Fl, point defeat against Nikolai Solowjow

Swedish championships

Bengt Johansson was Swedish master in Greco-Roman. Style 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1956 and 1957 flyweight and 1962 bantamweight.

swell

• 1) Div. Issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1949 to 1962,
• 2) Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976

Web links

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