Eemeli Vare

Eemeli Vare 1912

Eemeli (Emil) Ernst Väre (born September 28, 1885 in Kärkölä ; † January 31, 1974 ibid) was a Finnish wrestler.

Career

Emil Väre was one of the best Finnish wrestlers from the early years of modern wrestling. He came from Viipuri and belonged to the local wrestling club "Tarmo". In 1909 he was the first Finnish master in the Greco-Roman style in the class up to 73 kg body weight.

Emil Väre took part in four international championships, all of which he won. In 1911 he became world champion in Helsinki in middleweight (up to 73 kg body weight). He played 10 fights, won seven of them and fought three times. In 1912 he won the European Middleweight Championship in Budapest (up to 75 kg body weight). Victories over Rezsö Steiner, Hungary, Gyula Zólyomi, Hungary, Max Beeskow, Germany and Arpád Miskey, Hungary, are documented.

At the Olympic Games of the same year in Stockholm he won the gold medal in the lightweight (up to 67.5 kg body weight) with victories over Jan Balej, Bohemia, Jean Bouffechoux, France, Georg Baumann, Russia, Alessandro Covre, Italy, Edvin Matiasson, Sweden , and Gustaf Malmström , Sweden. He suffered a defeat against Oscar Kaplur from Russia , but it no longer had a negative effect on him.

Eight years later, at the Olympic Games in Antwerp in 1920 , Emil Väre achieved a second Olympic victory in convincing style. He shouldered his five opponents Charles Frisenfeldt from Denmark, Fristz Christiansen from Denmark, Rohon from France , Frits Janssens from Belgium and Taavi Tamminen from Finland.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, Wed = middleweight)

• 1911, 1st place , World Championships in Helsinki , GR, Wed, ahead of Theodor Tirkkanen, Finland , Alfred Salonen, Finland, Antti Kaista, Finland and Oscar Kaplur , Russia ;
• 1912, 1st place , EM in Budapest , GR, Wed, ahead of Arpád Miskey, Hungary , József Sugár, Hungary, Max Beeskow , Germany and Breznoticz, Hungary;
• 1912, gold medal , OS in Stockholm , Le, before Gustaf Malmström , Sweden, Edvin Matiasson, Sweden, Ödön Radvany, Hungary, Erik Lund, Sweden and Volmar Vikström, Finland;
• 1920, gold medal , OS in Antwerp , GR, Le, ahead of Taavi Tamminen, Finland, Frithjof Andersen, Norway, Charles Frisenfeldt, Denmark and Frits Janssens, Belgium

Finnish championships

Emil Väre was Finnish middleweight champion in 1909 and 1911. In 1910, he finished 3rd.

• 1909, 1st place , GR, up to 73 kg, ahead of Alfred Salonen and Matias Holm
• 1910, 3rd place , GR, up to 73 kg, behind Vihtori Urvikko and Jaakko Pikkarainen
• 1911, 1st place , GR, up to 73 kg, ahead of Vihtori Urvikko and Fridolf Lundsten

swell

• DOCUMENTATION of FILA Wrestling Championships, 1976
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Association, Athletik-Verlag Karlsruhe, 1972
• Carl Diem: The Olympic Games . Berlin, 1912, reprint of the Kasseler Sportverlag, 1990
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Individual evidence

1. ↑ painiliitto.net ( Memento of the original dated August 7, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Results of the Finnish wrestling championships 

Web links

• The results of the Finnish championships
• Eemeli Väre in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )