Erik Malmberg

Erik Malmberg in 1931

Erik Malmberg (born March 15, 1897 in Gothenburg , † May 9, 1964 ibid) was a Swedish wrestler .

Malmberg began wrestling in Gothenburg before the First World War . Thanks to regional successes, he soon rose to the top of the Swedish league. He preferred the Greco-Roman style. He was only able to achieve international success after 1920. At the Olympic Games in 1924 and 1928 he failed in featherweight to the Finns Kalle Anttila and Aleksanteri Toivola and the Estonian Voldemar Väli . In 1932, however, he achieved the Olympic victory in the lightweight in Los Angeles and also defeated the three-time German European champion Eduard Sperling from Dortmund . At that time he was already 38 years old.

Malmberg started for IS Örgryte Göteborg and was an independent businessman.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle)

• 1921, 3rd place , World Cup in Helsinki , GR, Fe, with victories over Eduard Pütsep , Estonia , A. Hietikko, Finland , I. van Maaren, Netherlands , Arvo Kangas, Finland and defeats against Kalle Anttila , Finland and Aleksanteri Toivola , Finland;
• 1922, 4th place , World Championship in Stockholm , GR, Fe, with victories over Peter Erikssen, Norway and Alfred Pedersen, Norway and defeats against Anttila and Otto Boesen, Denmark ;
• 1924, bronze medal , OS in Paris , GR, Fe, with victories over Ödön Radvány , Hungary , Arthur Nord, Norway, M. Capron, France , L. Bottin, Belgium, Enrico Porro , Italy , Karl Mezulian, Austria and one defeat against Toivola;
• 1925, 3rd place , EM in Milan , Gr, Fe, with victories over Pavle Goldstein, Yugoslavia , Harmath, Hungary, Artur Zirkel, Germany and defeats against Ernst Steinig , Germany and Gerolamo Quaglia , Italy;
• 1926, 2nd place , EM in Riga , Gr, Fe, with victories over Kopmans, Latvia and Steinig and one defeat against Voldemar Väli , Estonia;
• 1928, silver medal , OS in Amsterdam , GR, Fe, with victories over Aage Meier, Denmark, I. Bieri, Switzerland , R. Mollet, France, Toivola, Quaglia and one defeat against Väli;
• 1929, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Stockholm , in front of Karoly Karpati, Hungary a. H. Melin, Sweden;
• 1930, 1st place , EM in Stockholm , GR, Le, with victories over Jindřich Maudr , Czechoslovakia , Eduard Sperling , Germany, Reidar Andersen, Norway, Väli and Károly Kárpáti , Hungary;
• 1930, 3rd place , EM in Brussels , F, Le, with victories over Károly Kárpáti, Denis Perret, Switzerland, Offre, France and a defeat against Engelbert Mollin, Belgium;
• 1931, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Gothenburg , GR, We, before Jean Földeak , Germany a. Björkman, Sweden;
• 1932, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Le, with victories over Sperling, Aarne Reini , Finland, Abraham Kurland , Denmark and Y. Miyazaki, Japan

swell

• DOCUMENTATION of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
• 1972 yearbook of the German Wrestling Federation, Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1972

Web links

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