Hjalmar Nyström

Hjalmar Eemil Nyström (born March 28, 1904 in Helsinki ; † December 6, 1960 there ) was a Finnish wrestler .

Life

He grew up in Helsinki and belonged to the Helsingin Atleettiklubi . Together with Arvo Niemelä, he was the dominant Finnish heavyweight wrestler in the 1930s. In 1924 he became Finnish champion in the Greco-Roman style for the first time, but was used at the Olympic Games in Paris in a free style, which was still unknown to him at the time, and was promptly eliminated after the first round after a defeat against Swiss Robert Roth . He won six medals at international championships, but never made it to the top podium. Nyström was particularly successful in the traditional country battles against Sweden . He won 10 of 12 fights and defeated the entire Swedish elite from Carl Westergren to Rudolf Svensson , Johan Richthoff , Georg Nielsen , Thure Sjöstedt and John Nyman . In 1932 he could not be sent to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles by his association for financial reasons, although he was a sure medal candidate.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, gr = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, S = heavyweight)

• 1928, silver medal , OS in Amsterdam , gr, S, with victories over Georg Gehring , Germany , Mehmet Çoban , Turkey , Eugen Wiesberger , Austria , Raymund Badó , Hungary and one defeat against Rudolf Svensson , Sweden;
• 1929, 4th place , EM in Dortmund , gr, S, with victories over Einar Hansen , Denmark , Aleardo Donati , Italy and defeats to Rudolf Svensson and Georg Gehring;
• 1929, 2nd place , intern. Tournament in Stockholm, gr, S, behind Rudolf Svensson u. ahead of Geogg Nilsson, Sweden;
• 1930, 2nd place , EM in Stockholm , gr, S, with victories over Georg Gehring, Otto Viikberg , Estonia and one defeat against Johan Richthoff , Sweden;
• 1931, 2nd place , EM in Prague , gr, S, with victories over Georg Gehring, Josef Urban , Czechoslovakia , Aleardo Donati and one defeat against Carl Westergren , Sweden;
• 1931, 1st place , intern. Tournament in Gothenburg, GR, S, in front of Johan Richthoff u. Carl Westergren;
• 1934, 3rd place , EM in Stockholm, F, S, with victories over Willi Müller , Germany and defeats against Josef Klapuch , Czechoslovakia and Thure Sjöstedt , Sweden;
• 1935, 2nd place , EM in Copenhagen , gr, S, with victories over John Nyman , Sweden, Alberts Zvejnieks , Latvia and one defeat against Kurt Hornfischer , Germany;
• 1936, bronze medal , OS in Berlin , F, S, with victories over George Chiga , Canada , Robert Herland , France and defeats against Nils Åkerlindh , Sweden and Kristjan Palusalu , Estonia;
• 1936, 5th place , OS in Berlin, gr, S, with victories over Aleardo Donati, Italy, Emil Larsen , Denmark and defeats against Mehmet Çoban and John Nyman;
• 1939, 5th place , EM in Oslo , gr, S, with victory over Kurt Hornfischer and defeat against Gyula Bóbis , Hungary and Johannes Kotkas , Estonia.

National successes

Hjalmar Nyström won the Finnish heavyweight championship, Greco-Roman style in 1924, 1926, 1927, 1928, 1930, 1931, 1935, 1936, 1937 and 1939. In 1932, 1933, 1934 and 1938 he was runner-up behind Arvo Niemelä .

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1929 to 1939,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships , FILA, 1976

Web links

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