Gustaf Malmström

Gustaf Malmström (born July 4, 1884 in Malmö , Sweden ; † December 24, 1970 ibid) was a Swedish wrestler from the early years of modern wrestling.

Career

Gustaf Malmström was active in the period before the First World War and in 1909 he became the Swedish lightweight champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. He did not win any other Swedish championship titles. The weight class division often varied back then, but the lightweight usually went up to 67.5 kg body weight. Gustaf started for the IFK Malmö sports club .

He was also very successful in international championships, all of which, with the exception of the Olympic Games, were unofficial. He won the European Championship title at the European Championships in Copenhagen in 1907 with four shoulder victories over five Danes. He started in the weight class up to 75 kg body weight (middle weight). A class with a lower body weight was not advertised. In the final he defeated Arthur Petersen-Clayton .

Also in 1909 Gustaf was European champion in Malmö . This time in the weight class up to 67.5 kg body weight (lightweight). In 1910 he also started at the European Championships in Budapest and ended up in 5th place in the lightweight, which went up to 70 kg body weight. After three wins he lost against the eventual European champion Max Beeskow from Germany .

At the World Cup in Helsinki in 1911 he had to compete a total of seven times, fought four times and won three fights, which was enough for 2nd place. The winner was Nestori Touminen from Finland .

The Olympic Games in Stockholm in 1912 were the highlight of Gustaf Malmström's career. He started again in the lightweight division, with a total of 48 participants at the start. After six sovereign victories, Gustaf faced the Finn Eemeli Väre in the final , against whom he lost and thus won the silver medal in front of Edvin Mattiasson, Sweden , Jan Baley, Bohemia and Erik Lund, Sweden.

The results of the championships in which Gustaf Malmström participated can be found in the following section.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, KG = body weight)

• 1907, 1st place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, up to 75 kg body weight, with victories over Anders Andersen, E. Petersen, Axel Hansen and Arthur Petersen-Clayton, all Denmark ;
• 1909, 1st place , EM in Malmö , GR, up to 67.5 kg body weight, ahead of Arnold Hansen, Denmark, Frederik Hansen, Denmark, Hjalmar Aberg, Finland and J. Willemsen, Denmark;
• 1910, 5th place , EM in Budapest , GR, up to 70 kg body weight, behind Max Beeskow , Germany , Karel Halik, Bohemia, Rezsö Steiner, Hungary and Andreas Mrosek, Austria and ahead of Miklós Orosz, Hungary;
• 1911, 2nd place , World Championships in Helsinki , GR, up to 67.5 kg body weight, behind Nestori Tuominen, Finland and in front of Paul Tirkkonen, Finland, Jean Bruce, Finland and Gottfried Svensson, Sweden;
• 1912, silver medal , OS in Stockholm , GR, up to 67.5 kg body weight, with victories over Volmar Vikström , Finland, Paul Tirkkonen, Finland, Viktor Urvikko, Finland, Ernö Márkus, Hungary, Viktor Fischer , Austria and Edvin Matiasson, Sweden and one loss to Eemeli Vare , Finland

swell

• DOCUMENTATION of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

• Gustaf Malmström in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )