Herman Tuvesson

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Herman Tuvesson (born October 21, 1902 in Vankiva , Hässleholm , † February 2, 1995 in Bjärnum , Hässleholm ) was a Swedish wrestler . He was multiple European champion.

Career

Herman Tuvesson comes from the small Swedish town of Bjärnum, where he trained as a carpenter. As a teenager he joined the local wrestling club Bjärnums GIF and developed into an outstanding bantamweight wrestler who preferred the Greco-Roman style, but also competed in the free style.

In 1930 he was the first Swedish master in the Greco-Roman style and also made his debut on the international wrestling mat in the same year. At the European Championships in Stockholm , he immediately won the bantamweight title, Greco-Roman style, with five superior victories. Herman delivered his masterpiece at the 1931 European Championships in Prague . With five shoulder wins, including one over the 1928 Olympic champion Kurt Leucht from Germany , he was again European bantamweight champion, Greco-Roman style, without a single missing point.

As a favorite, Herman traveled to Los Angeles for the 1932 Olympic Games . After two wins on points, he was defeated in the third round against Jakob Brendel from Nuremberg , whom he had clearly defeated on points in an international match shortly before leaving for Los Angeles in Stockholm and had to retire without a medal.

At the European Championships in Helsinki in 1933, Herman lost to the Hungarian Ödön Zombori , after he had previously defeated Olympic champion Jakob Brendel and became vice European champion. Herman Tuvesson won his third European title at the European Championships in Rome in 1934 . He was almost as superior as in 1931, celebrated six wins, four of them shoulder wins, and returned the favor to Ödön Zombori for the defeat from the previous year. In the same year, Herman started in Stockholm for the first time at the European Free Style Championships and took third place behind Márton Lőrincz from Hungary and Hermann Fischer from Germany.

In 1935, Herman won his fourth Greco-Roman style European title in Copenhagen . With a good lot he only needed three wins.

In 1936, Herman competed at the Olympic Games in Berlin in free style because he had lost the Swedish Olympic elimination in the Greco-Roman style against Egon Svensson . Herman won his first four fights, but lost in the 5th round to the American Ross Flood and, like four years earlier, had to retire without a medal, although the later Olympic champion Ödön Zombori was among the wrestlers he defeated .

Despite this disappointment, Herman was again at the start of the 1937 European Free Style Championship in Munich and, at the end of his great career, won the vice European title again behind his old rival Jakob Brendel.

Herman Tuvesson was perhaps the best bantamweight wrestler in the world in the 1930s, but he never managed to win an Olympic medal in his great career.

The results of the international championships in which he participated can be seen in the following section.

International championships

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Ba = bantam weight, Fe = featherweight, at that time up to 56 kg or 61 kg body weight)

Swedish championships

Herman Tuvesson was five times in a row Swedish master in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight from 1930 to 1934.

swell

  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Database, 1976
  • Various issues of the specialist magazine “Athletik” from 1930 to 1936 and the specialist magazine “Kraftsport” from 1937

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personal data
SURNAME Tuvesson, Herman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 21, 1902
PLACE OF BIRTH Vankiva , Hässleholm
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1995
Place of death Bjärnum , Hässleholm