Hermanni Pihlajamäki

Hermanni Pihlajamäki

Hermanni Pihlajamäki medal table
Wrestler
Finland
Olympic games
gold	1932 Los Angeles	Feather freestyle
bronze	1936 Berlin	Easy freestyle
European Championship
gold	1931 Budapest	Feather freestyle
silver	1935 Copenhagen	Spring Greco
silver	1935 Brussels	Easy freestyle

Hermanni Pihlajamäki (born November 11, 1903 in Nurmo , † June 4, 1982 in Ähtäri ) was a Finnish wrestler.

Hermanni Pihlajamäki was a younger cousin of the greatest Finnish wrestler of all time, Kustaa Pihlajamäki . Following this family tradition, the young Hermanni also became a wrestler and also grew into the Finnish top class. In 1929 he became Finnish runner-up in the Greco-Roman style in lightweight. He started for the wrestling club Vaasan Voima-Veikot . Hermanni, actually a featherweight (up to 61 kg body weight), often started at the lightweight (up to 66 kg body weight) to avoid Kustaa. But he had tough competition in Finland in this weight class in Aarne Reini , Aarne Mäki and Lauri Koskela . The greatest success of Hermanni Pihlajamäki was the Olympic victory in Los Angeles in 1932 in featherweight, free style. In 1936 he won another medal at the Olympic Games in Berlin .

Hermanni Pihlajamäki was a police officer.

International success

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

• 1931, 1st place , EM in Budapest , F, Fe, with victories over Sven Thelander, Sweden and Jean Chasson, France ;
• 1932, gold medal , OS in Los Angeles , F, Fe, with victories over Herbert Rowland, Canada , Edgar Nemir , USA , Christian Schack, Denmark , Ioannis Farmakidis, Greece and Einar Karlsson , Sweden;
• 1935, 2nd place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, Fe, with victories over Göte Persson, Sweden, Aage Meier, Denmark, Svend Martinsen , Norway , František Špatenka, ČSR and one defeat against Sebastian Hering , Germany ;
• 1935, 2nd place , EM in Brussels , F, Le, with victories over Jean Lalemand, Belgium , Arthur Thompson, Wolfgang Ehrl , Germany, Fritz Vordermann, Switzerland and defeats against Einar Karlsson and Károly Kárpáti , Hungary ;
• 1936, bronze medal , OS in Berlin , F, Le, with victories over Sadık Soğancı, Turkey , Thompson, Lalemand, Charles Delporte, France and defeats against Wolfgang Ehrl and Kárpáti;
• 1937, 4th place , EM in Munich , F, Le, with victories over Jean Vaissier, France and František Kocůrek, ČSR and defeats against Gösta Frändfors , Sweden and Heinrich Nettesheim , Germany

Finnish championships

Hermanni Pihlajamäki won a total of six Finnish championship titles

Web links

• Hermanni Pihlajamäki in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )