Onni Pellinen

Onni Pellinen medal table
Wrestler
Finland
Olympic games
bronze	1924 Paris	Semi-difficult
bronze	1928 Amsterdam	Semi-difficult
silver	1932 Los Angeles	Semi-difficult
European Championship
gold	1929 Dortmund	Semi-difficult
gold	1931 Prague	Semi-difficult

Onni Wilhelm Pellinen (born February 14, 1899 in Hankasalmi , † October 30, 1945 in Istanbul , Turkey ) was a Finnish wrestler .

Career

Onni Pellinen started wrestling with the capital club Helsingin Visa , which was part of the Finnish Workers' Sports Association TUL . In 1923 he wrestled for the Turun Weikot club, which was also part of the TUL . In 1924 he moved to the Turun Voimamiehet , a club that belonged to the association attached to the World Wrestling Federation . The following year he came to Helsingin Kisa-Veikot . Pellinen was soon among the world's top light heavyweight players and won medals in three consecutive Olympic Games. However, he was denied winning a gold medal. He fought many exciting fights in his career against the Swedish world class wrestlers Carl Westergreen and Rudolf Svensson . In 1928 he was about to win the Olympic Games, but was completely surprisingly defeated in the final against Ibrahim Mustapha, an Egyptian who was completely unknown in the international wrestling scene at the time, and had to be satisfied with the silver medal. In 1935 he started for the Helsingin Paini-Miehet for the last time at Finnish championships and finished sixth at the European championships in Copenhagen. Nioch in the same year he went to Turkey as a trainer and quickly led the Turkish wrestlers to the top of the world. Pellinen died in Turkey in 1945 at the age of 46.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 79 kg or 87 kg body weight)

• 1924, bronze medal , OS in Paris , GR, Hs, with victories over Misset, Netherlands , Rudolf Loo , Estonia , Stefan Dömeny , Hungary , Stefan Nagy, Yugoslavia and one defeat against Rudolf Svensson , Sweden ;
• 1928, bronze medal , OS in Amsterdam , GR, Hs, with victories over Otto Pohla, Estonia, Petersons, Latvia , Imre Szalai, Hungary, Carl Westergreen , Sweden and one defeat against Ibrahim Mustafa , Egypt ;
• 1929, 1st place , EM in Dortmund , GR, Hs, with victories over Mutsaers, Netherlands, Petersons, Gruppioni, Italy , Robert Rupp , Germany and Sanfried Söderquist, Sweden;
• 1929, 2nd place , intern. Tournament in Stockholm , GR, Hs, behind Rudolf Svensson and in front of Ibrahim Mustafa , Egypt , Thure Sjöstedt , Sweden a. Robert Rupp;
• 1930, 2nd place , intern. Tournament in Gothenburg , GR, Hs, behind Rudolf Svensson and in front of Sanfried Söderquist , both Swedes;
• 1931, 1st place , EM in Prague , GR, Hs, with victories over Gestwinski, Poland , Petersons, August Neo , Estonia and Rudolf Svensson;
• 1932, silver medal , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Hs, with victory over Gruppioni and defeat against Svensson;
• 1932, 2nd place , intern. Tournament in Stockholm, GR, Hs, behind Ivar Johansson , Sweden and in front of Thure Sjöstedt , Sweden;
• 1935, 6th place , EM in Copenhagen , GR, Hs, with victory over Edvīns Bietags , Latvia and defeat against Paul Böhmer , Germany and Axel Cadier , Sweden.

National successes

Onni Pellinen was in 1923 in the light heavyweight and in 1922 in the middleweight champion of the workers' sports federation TUL and in 1926, 1927, 1929, 1931, 1932 and 1935 Finnish champion in the light heavyweight, each in Greco-Roman style and in 1933 champion in freestyle, light heavyweight.

TUL:

• 1920, 3rd place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, behind Oskari Meisvuori and Rafael Hautakangas
• 1921, 2nd place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, behind Kalle Kaipio and in front of Oskari Meisvuori
• 1922, 1st place , GR, up to 75 kg, in front of Väinö Kokkinen and Evert Salonen
• 1923, 1st place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, ahead of Kalle Kaipio and A. Keihäs

SPL:

• 1925, 3rd place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, behind Iisakki Mylläri and Eemeli Juvonen
• 1926, 1st place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, ahead of Vilho Pekkala and V. Honkanen
• 1927, 2nd place , FS, up to 87 kg, behind Emil Vecksten
• 1927, 1st place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, ahead of Vilho Pekkala and Emil Vecksten
• 1929, 1st place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, ahead of Kalle Luukko and Arvi Ollikainen
• 1930, 2nd place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, behind Edil Rosenqvist and in front of Aukusti Sihvola
• 1931, 1st place , GR, up to 82.5 kg, ahead of Aukusti Sihvola and Onni Sirenius
• 1932, 1st place , GR, up to 87 kg, ahead of S. Pellinen and T. Rahikainen
• 1933, 1st place , FS, up to 87 kg, ahead of N. Tammi and E. Sjöblom
• 1933, 3rd place , GR, up to 87 kg, behind Kyösti Luukko and Edvard Vesterlund
• 1934, 3rd place , GR, over 87 kg, behind Arvo Niemelä and Hjalmar Nyström
• 1935, 1st place , GR, up to 87 kg, ahead of Matti Lahti and Aarre Airo

swell

• 1) DOCUMENTATION of the FILA International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• 2) Various issues of the specialist magazine Athletik from 1929 to 1936

Web links

• Onni Pellinen in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )