Karl-Erik Nilsson

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Karl-Erik Nilsson
medal table
Karl-Erik Nilsson
Karl-Erik Nilsson

Wrestler

Sweden
Olympic games
gold 1948 London Semi-difficult
bronze 1952 Helsinki Semi-difficult
bronze 1956 Melbourne bronze
World Championship
bronze 1955 Karlsruhe Semi-difficult

Karl-Erik Nilsson (born January 4, 1922 in Stehag , Eslöv , † December 14, 2017 ) was a Swedish wrestler . He was Olympic champion in London in 1948 .

Career

Karl-Erik Nilsson started wrestling as a teenager in Malmö . As a member of the wrestling club GAK "Enighet" Malmö, he developed into an expert in the Greco-Roman style. As a member of the born 1922, he had to wait until 1948 because of the Second World War until he came to an international championship, the Olympic Games in London . Excellent prepared by the coaches Robert Oksa and Rudolf Svedberg , he managed to win the gold medal in the Greco-Roman style in the light heavyweight division with six wins .

In 1949 Karl-Erik Nilsson stayed with his club on a competition trip in Germany . The German athletes had been outlawed internationally since the end of the war and were not allowed to participate in any international championships. The Swedish wrestlers from Malmö around Karl-Erik Nilsson were therefore to be credited with being among the first foreign athletes to shake hands with the German wrestlers for reconciliation and for sporting competition. During this trip Nilsson met the German champion Max Leichter from Eckenheim three times and won all three encounters.

In 1950, after a 28-year break, the Greco-Roman style world championships were held in Stockholm for the first time. Nilsson started as the favorite in the light heavyweight division, but disappointed, because he lost after three wins against the Hungarian Gyula Kovács and only came in 4th place.

In the second participation in the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Nilsson won the bronze medal with three wins and two losses. He was defeated by Schalwa Tschikladse from the Soviet Union and Kelpo Grondahl from Finland , who also became Olympic champion .

At the 1953 World Cup in Naples , Nilsson first got two light heavyweight victories over difficult opponents, namely Adelmo Bulgarelli from Italy and August Englas , the Soviet champion from Estonia . In his third fight he was defeated by his old rival Kelpo Grondahl and was eliminated and only came in 7th place. August Englas won the world title ahead of Kelpo Grondahl.

Nilsson won a medal again at the 1955 World Cup in Greco-Roman style in Karlsruhe . He had to contest seven fights, of which he won five. He suffered defeats against Veikko Lahti from Finland and Valentin Nikolajew from the Soviet Union.

At the end of his successful career, Nilsson finally won another bronze medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne . He took revenge on Veikko Lahti for his defeat in Karlsruhe and was only defeated by Petko Sirakow from Bulgaria and Valentin Nikolajew.

International success

year space competition Weight class Results
1948 gold OS in London Semi-difficult with victories over Kenneth Richmond , Great Britain , Ibrahim Orabi, Egypt , Erling Lauridsen, Denmark , Mustafa Çakmak , Turkey , Gyula Kovács , Hungary and Kelpo Grondahl , Finland
1950 4th World Cup in Stockholm Semi-difficult with victories over Umberto Silvestri , Italy , Michel Davidovici, France and Muharrem Candaş , Turkey and one defeat against Gyula Kovacs
1952 bronze OS in Helsinki Semi-difficult with victories over Michel Scaf, Lebanon , Ovidu Forai, Romania and Gyula Kovács and defeats against Schalwa Tschikladse , Soviet Union and Kelpo Grondahl
1953 7th World Cup in Naples Semi-difficult with victories over August Englas , USSR and Adelmo Bulgarelli , Italy and one defeat against Kelpo Grondahl
1955 3. World Cup in Karlsruhe Semi-difficult with victories over Johannes Janssens, Belgium , Josef Schummer, Luxemburg , Herbert Albrecht , GDR , Adelmo Bulgarelli and Hermann Karstens, Netherlands and defeats against Veikko Lahti , Finland and Valentin Nikolajew , USSR
1956 bronze OS in Melbourne Semi-difficult with victories over Eugen Wiesberger, Austria , Robert Steckle, Canada and Veikko Lahti and defeats against Petko Sirakow , Bulgaria and Valentin Nikolajew

Most important international battles

  • 1951, Sweden against Germany , GR, Hs, point winner over Max Leichter ,
  • 1952, Germany against Sweden, GR, Hs, point winner over Max Leichter,
  • 1953, Sweden against Turkey , GR, Hs, point winner over Haydar Zafer ,
  • 1954, Sweden against USSR , GR, Hs, shoulder defeat against O. Kandelaki,
  • 1954, Sweden against USSR, F, Hs, point defeat against Boris Kulayev ,
  • 1955, USSR against Sweden, GR, Hs, point defeat against Valentin Nikolajew,
  • 1955, USSR against Sweden, GR, Hs, point defeat against Arkadi Tkachev ,
  • 1955, Turkey against Sweden, GR, Hs, point victory over Haydar Zafer,
  • 1956, Sweden against USSR, GR, Hs, point defeat against Arkady Tkachev

Swedish championships

Karl-Erik Nilsson was seven times Swedish light heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style

Explanations
  • all competitions in Greco-Roman style
  • OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship
  • Light heavyweight, then up to 87 kg body weight

literature

  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976.
  • various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1948 to 1956.

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Nilsson, Karl-Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 4, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Stand up , Eslöv
DATE OF DEATH December 2017