Bo Johansson (weightlifter)

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Bo Valdemar Johansson (born February 7, 1945 in Gothenburg ) is a former Swedish weightlifter .

Career

Johansson grew up in Gothenburg and started bodybuilding as a boy. At the age of 16 he also started to practice weightlifting , but did not do it very intensively because he wanted to finish his carpenter apprenticeship first. Later he intensified the weightlifting training because he showed a lot of talent in this sport, but still went to bodybuilding in the City Gym in Gothenburg. Ingve Frölander, who became General Secretary of the Swedish Weightlifting Association in 1962, made sure that the training conditions and social conditions for Swedish weightlifters were greatly improved. Johansson, who was the Swedish junior light heavyweight champion in 1966 with 370 kg in the Olympic three-way battle, also benefited from this. In the same year he was second winner of the Swedish senior championships in the light heavyweight division with 372.5 kg. In 1968 he was the first Swedish champion in middle heavyweight with 490 kg. He had improved by almost 120 kg in the Olympic three-way fight within a year. This level of performance was also successful internationally. He became vice world champion in 1969 and vice European champion in 1968 and 1971, although in 1971 he almost achieved the sensation of beating the then unbeatable Soviet athlete David Rigert . Both achieved 537.5 kg in the OD, but Johansson was a few grams heavier than Rigert and had to be content with second place. Johansson was injured the whole of 1972, so that he could not start in the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . In 1973 he tried a fresh start, but failed at both the European and World Championships and then withdrew from weightlifting.

Johansson also participated with great success in bodybuilding competitions, especially in the Scandinavian region.

International successes / all-around

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Ls = light heavyweight, up to 82.5 kg body weight, Ms = medium heavyweight, up to 90 kg body weight, S = heavyweight, up to 110 kg body weight, competitions up to 1972 in three-way combat, existing from pushing, tearing and pushing, from 1973 in a duel, consisting of tearing and pushing)

  • 1966, international match Italy - Sweden in Benevento : Corradini, 410 kg: Johansson, 390 kg, Ls;
  • 1967, 2nd place , Skand. Master class in Stavanger , Ls, with 407.5 kg, behind Tauno Kare, Finland , 407.5 kg and in front of V. Nielsen, Denmark , 392.5 kg;
  • 1968, 2nd place , Baltic Cup in Helsinki , Ms, with 502.5 kg, behind Kaarlo Kangasniemi , Finland , 522.5 kg and in front of Leonhard Beinhofer , Germany , 445 kg;
  • 1968, 2nd place , EM in Leningrad , Ms, with 495 kg, behind Jaan Talts , USSR , 512.5 kg and in front of Kaarlo Kangasniemi , Finland , 490 kg;
  • 1968, 4th place , OS in Mexico City , Ms, with 492.5 kg, behind Kangasniemi, 517.5 kg, Talts, 507.5 kg and Marek Gołąb , Poland , 495 kg;
  • 1969, 2nd place , Skand. Master class in Copenhagen , Ms, with 470 kg, behind Kangasniemi, 510 kg and in front of Smith-Larsen, Norway , 450 kg;
  • 1969, 3rd place , Baltic Cup in Zinnowitz , Ms, with 485 kg, behind Karl Arnold , GDR , 507.5 kg and Kangasniemi, 500 kg;
  • 1969, 2nd place , WM + EM in Sofia , Ms, with 500 kg, behind Kangasniemi, 515 kg and in front of Géza Tóth , Hungary , 495 kg;
  • 1970, 3rd place , EM in Szombathely , Ms, with 525 kg, behind Kangasniemi, 530 kg, Wassili Kolotow , USSR, 527.5 kg and in front of Arnold, 505 kg;
  • 1971, 1st place , Nordic Masters, Ms, with 525 kg, ahead of Saarelainen, Finland, 492.5 kg and Marstad, Norway, 445 kg;
  • 1971, 2nd place , EM in Sofia , Ms, with 537.5 kg, behind David Rigert , USSR, 537.5 kg and in front of Atanas Schopow, Bulgaria , 512.5 kg;
  • 1971, 3rd place , WM in Lima , Ms, with 520 kg, behind Rigert, 545 kg and Kolotow, 537.5 kg;
  • 1973, 1st place , Nordic Masters, S, with 370 kg, ahead of Kauko Kangasniemi , Finland, 357.5 kg;
  • 1973, unplaced, EM in Madrid , Ms, with 3 failed attempts in pushing;
  • 1973, unplaced, World Cup in Havana , S, with 3 failed attempts in the tear

Medal individual disciplines

(awarded since 1969)

  • World Cup gold medal: 1969, tear, 150 kg,
  • World Cup bronze medals: 1969, push, 165 kg, 1971, tear, 155 kg
  • EM gold medal: 1969, tear, 150 kg,
  • EM silver medals: 1970, push, 177.5 kg, 1970, snatch, 157.5 kg, 1971, push, 182.5 kg, 1971, snatch, 155 kg, 1971, push, 200 kg,
  • European Championship bronze medals, 1969, pushing, 165 kg, 1973, tearing, 155 kg

World records

(all achieved in middle heavyweight)

in pressing:

in pushing:

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personal data
SURNAME Johansson, Bo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johansson, Bo Valdemar
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish weightlifter
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Gothenburg