Martti Laakso

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Martti Laakso (born December 19, 1943 in Ilmajoki ) is a former Finnish wrestler . He was Vice World Champion in 1965 and Vice European Champion in 1970 and 1972 in the Greco-Roman style in featherweight.

Career

Animated by his brother Matti Laakso , who is four years older than him , Martti Laakso also started wrestling at the Ilmajoen Kisailijoita wrestling club . In contrast to his brother, he was only active in the Greco-Roman style. During his career he also started for the sports club Vasaan Voima-Veikot . After Martti Laakso already belonged to the best Finnish wrestlers in the junior division in the various age groups, he became the first Finnish bantamweight champion in 1962 at the age of 19. By the end of his career in 1973, he had won a total of five Finnish championship titles.

Martti Laakso appeared on the international wrestling mat for the first time in 1965. After finishing 2nd at the Nordic Championships behind the Swede Leif Freij in the featherweight division, he caused a bang at the World Championships that year in Tampere , because he won as an unknown newcomer he won the silver medal with five wins and one defeat in the final against the Soviet athlete Yuri Grigoryev and was thus vice world champion .

After a somewhat weaker year in 1966, Martti Laakso reached a good 4th place at the European Championships in Minsk in 1967 . He remained unbeaten in this championship in four fights, but had to retire after two draws against Sreten Damjanović from Yugoslavia and Metin Alakoc from Turkey because of reaching 6 fault points. At the world championship of the same year he wrestled against Lothar Schneider from the GDR , but had to retire prematurely after the third round because of a defeat against the eventual world champion Roman Rurua from the Soviet Union .

In 1968 Martti Laakso came in 6th place both at the European Championships in Västerås and at the Olympic Games in Mexico City . At the European Championships he also defeated Werner Hettich from Freiburg im Breisgau and again drew at the Olympic Games against Lothar Schneider.

In 1969 the World Championships in Mar del Plata took place before the European Championships in Modena . In Mar del Plata Martti Laakso managed to win the bronze medal at the World Championships with third place . It was remarkable that he scored a draw against world champion Roman Rurua. An avoidable defeat against Petre Roman from Romania cost him an even better placement. At the European Championships in Modena, he did not succeed. He fought twice and retired after a completely surprising defeat against the Swiss Jakob Tanner after the 3rd round.

At the 1970 European Championships in Berlin , Marrti Laakso was again in excellent shape. After three wins he wrestled u. a. against Kazimierz Lipień from Poland . In the final he lost to Vyacheslav Topurov from Bulgaria . In the final statement he took an excellent 2nd place. At the world championship of the same year in Edmonton , Martti Laakso again defeated Werner Hettich and also won over Kazimierz Lipień. But he then lost to the strong Japanese Hideo Fujimoto and came in 5th place.

After Martti Laakso paused on the international wrestling mat in 1971, he was again runner-up European featherweight champion at the 1972 European Championships in Katowice . Martti was also in the forefront at the Olympic Games in Munich , even scored a draw after two wins against Hideo Fujimoto and was only barely defeated by the dominating wrestlers Dschemal Megrelishvili from the Soviet Union and Georgi Markow from Bulgaria. With the 7th place he remained without a medal.

After 1973 Martti Laakso ended his international wrestling career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = Bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, until 1962 up to 57 kg, 62 kg and 67 kg, from 1963 up to 57 kg, 63 kg and 70 kg, from 1969 up to 57 kg, 62 kg and 68 kg body weight)

  • 1967, 4th place , "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow , GR, Fe, behind Iwan Saizew, Sertschik Agamow and others. Sergej Kujachew, all USSR a. before Simion Popescu u. Jiří Švec , Czechoslovakia ;
  • 1967, 1st place , pre-Olympic tournament in Mexico City , GR, Fe, ahead of Simion Popescu, Dimitar Galinchew, Bulgaria a. Jose Guiterrez, Mexico ;
  • 1968, 1st place , Nordic Championship, GR, Fe, ahead of Oystein Davidsen, Norway a. Aronsson, Sweden;
  • 1968, 6th place , EM in Västerås , GR, Fe, with victories over Werner Hettich , BRD a. Ramon Mentruit, Spain , a tie against Sreten Damjanović u. a loss to Dimitar Galinchew;
  • 1968, 6th place , OS in Mexico City , GR, Fe, with victories over Ponciano Contreras, Mexico a . Leonard Dutz, Belgium , a draw against Lothar Schneider u. a loss to Simion Popescu;
  • 1969, 6th place , EM in Modena , GR, Fe, with a draw against Ivan Kaspar, CSSR a. Roland Svensson et al. a loss to Jakob Tanner, Switzerland;
  • 1970, 2nd place , EM in Berlin , GR, Fe, with victories over Harry van Landeghem, Belgium, Imre Baracsi u. Ivan Kaspar, a draw against Kazimierz Lipień u. a loss to Vyacheslav Topurov , Bulgaria;
  • 1970, 5th place , World Championships in Edmonton , GR, Fe, with victories over Kazimierz Lipień, Francesco Scuderi, Italy a. Whom Hettich u. a loss to Hideo Fujimoto , Japan ;
  • 1971, 2nd place , Nordic Championship, GR, Fe, behind Lars-Erik Skiöld , Sweden a. before Oystein Davidsen;
  • 1972, 2nd place , EM in Katowice , GR, Fe, with victories over Ladislav Nepustil, CSSR, Oystein Davidsen u. Kazimierz Lipień, a tie against Ralf Schröter , GDR a. a loss to Georgi Markow , Bulgaria;
  • 1972, 7th place , OS in Munich , GR, Fe, with victories over Hernandez Juan De Dios, Guatemala a . Carlos Hurtado, Peru , a tie against Hideo Fujimoto u. Defeats against Jemal Megrelishvili , USSR a. Georgi Markov;
  • 1973, 1st place , Nordic Championship, GR, Fe, ahead of Kenneth Karlsson, Sweden, Oystein Davidsen u. Days Weirum , Denmark

Finnish championships

  • 1962, 1st place, GR, Ba, before Raimo Taskinen a. Jorma Turunen,
  • 1963, 3rd place, GR, Ba, behind Raimo Taskinen u. Jorma Turunen,
  • 1965, 2nd place, GR, Fe, behind Tauno Jaskari u. in front of Jorma Juoperi,
  • 1966, 1st place, GR, Fe, before Tauno Jaskari u. Heino Jämsä,
  • 1968, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Heino Jämsä u. Sauli Heinonen,
  • 1969, 3rd place, GR, Fe, behind Pentti Ylinen u. Jorma Liimatainen,
  • 1971, 2nd place, GR, Fe, ahead of Jorma Liimatainen u. Sauli Heinonen,
  • 1972, 1st place, GR, Fe, before Eero Suvilehto u. Jorma Liimatainen,
  • 1973, 3rd place, GR, Le, behind Markku Yli-Isotalo u. Veikko Lavonen

swell

  • Professional journal Athletics, numbers: 10/1965, page 16, 12/1967, page 32, 9/1971, page 32
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA, 1976, pages W-63, E-48, W-70, E-52, W-74, E-59, O-82, E-65, W-81, E-76 , W-87, E-85, O-94
  • Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig
  • Website www-tulpaini.fi with the results of the Finnish championships

Web links

  • Profile of Martti Laakso at the Institute for Applied Training Science (Note: In this website the results of Matti Laakso, born March 23, 1939, and Martti Laakso, born December 19, 1943, have been mixed up. The lines with the weight classes up to 73 kg , 78 kg and 82 kg concern Matti Laakso and the lines with weight classes up to 62 kg and 63 kg concern Martti Laakso.)
  • Martti Laakso in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
personal data
SURNAME Laakso, Martti
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Ilmajoki