Olle Anderberg

Olle Anderberg uses a leg screw against Helge Rautti (Swedish Championships, 1946)

Olle Anderberg medal table
Olle Anderberg
Wrestler
Sweden
Olympic games
silver	1948 London	Spring Greco
gold	1952 Helsinki	Easy freestyle
World Championship
gold	1950 Stockholm	Spring Greco
gold	1951 Helsinki	Easy freestyle
gold	1953 Naples	Spring Greco
silver	1954 Tokyo	Easy freestyle
European Championship
silver	1946 Stockholm	Feather freestyle
gold	1947 Prague	Spring Greco
gold	1949 Istanbul	Feather freestyle

Olle Anderberg (born September 13, 1919 in Asmundtorp , † September 28, 2003 in Linköping ) was a Swedish wrestler .

Career

Olle Anderberg grew up in Landskrona . He started wrestling and gymnastics as early as 1931 . He was small and petite then. Since he achieved greater success in wrestling in the youth field, he soon decided entirely for wrestling. He first started in bantamweight (up to 56 kg body weight), soon in featherweight (up to 62 kg) and towards the end of his career also in lightweight (up to 67 kg body weight). What is rare today, he was an expert in both styles, Greco-Roman and free style. In Sweden , Olle , who is now starting for GAK Eskilstuna , was part of the national elite at the beginning of the 1940s. Before he could struggle for international success, he had to wait until 1946 as a result of the Second World War . He remained active until 1954 and won everything a wrestler could win in those years. He became Olympic champion , world and European champion. The Finnish coach of the Swedish national wrestling team Robert Oksa has the greatest merits for his success . In the late 1940s, Turkish wrestlers were Gazanfer Bilge , Mehmet Oktav and others. Nurettin Zafer his toughest competitors, to whom he failed several times, while the Soviet wrestlers Soloviev , Armenak Yaltyrjan and S. Gabaraew lost to Olle at the international championships.

Olla Anderberg was a physical education teacher and also worked as a wrestling trainer in Iran for a few years in the 1950s. In September 2009 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

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

• 1946, 2nd place , EM in Stockholm , F, Fe, with victories over Ferenc Tóth , Hungary , František Kotrbatý , former Czechoslovakia , Paavo Hietala , Finland a . a loss to Gazanfer Bilge , Turkey ;
• 1947, 1st place , EM in Prague , GR, Fe, with victories over Luigi Campanella , Italy , Solowiew , USSR, Viljo Kyntäjä , Finland, Gazanfer Bilge u. Ferenc Tóth;
• 1948, silver medal , OS in London , Gr, Fe, with victories over Erkki Talosela , Finland, Georg Weidner , Austria , Luigi Campanella, Ferenc Tóth u. a loss to Mehmet Oktav , Turkey;
• 1949, 1st place , EM in Istanbul , F, Fe, with victories over Ilmari Ruikka , Finland, Hassan Sadian , Iran , Charles Kouyos , France a . despite a loss to Nurettin Zafer , Turkey;
• 1950, 1st place , World Cup in Stockholm , GR, Fe, with victories over József Hullay , Hungary, Källe Leisin , Denmark , Sayed Khandil , Egypt a . Safih Taha , Lebanon ;
• 1951, 1st place , World Cup in Helsinki , F, Le, with victories over İbrahim Zengin , Turkey, Wolfgang Ehrl , Germany , Ali Ghaffari , Iran, René Chesneau , France a . Garibaldo Nizzola , Italy;
• 1952, gold medal , OS in Helsinki, F, Le, with victories over Jahanbakht Tofigh , Iran , Jay Thomas Evans , USA , Takeo Shimotori , Japan , Johnn Cools , Belgium , Garibaldo Nizzola u. Armenak Yaltyrjan , USSR;
• 1953, 1st place , World Cup in Naples , Gr, Fe, with victories over Elie Naasan , Lebanon, Umberto Trippa , Italy, Helmut Höhenberger , Germany, Källe Leisin, Denmark a. Roman Heller , Austria;
• 1954, 2nd place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, Le, with victories over Gyula Tóth , Hungary, Nateo Tanaquin , Philippines , Juan Rolon , Argentina , Sergei Gabaraew , USSR a. a loss to Jahanbakht Tofigh

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• Athletics magazine from 1949 to 1954.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FILA Hall of Fame members inducted in Denmark ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 22, 2010. 

Web links

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