Per Svensson

Per Svensson
Per Svensson (2009)
Personal information
Surname:	Per Oskar Svensson
Nationality:	Sweden
Society:	Heby BK AIK Sundsvall
Date of birth:	February 6, 1943
Place of birth:	Solleftea , Sweden
Date of death:	≤  December 17, 2020
Place of death:	Sundsvall , Sweden
Size:	1.88 m
Style:	Greco-Roman style
Weight class:	Light heavyweight heavyweight

Per Oskar "Pelle" Svensson (born February 6, 1943 in Sollefteå ; † before or on December 17, 2020 in Sundsvall ) was a Swedish wrestler and lawyer .

Career

Per Svensson grew up in Sollefteå and started wrestling there as a teenager. He soon achieved his first successes at the regional level and moved first to Heby BK and then to AIK Sundsvall , the club of the multiple Olympic champion from the 1920s and 1930s Rudolf Svenssonwho also became his sporting role model. At the age of 19, the strong young man became the first Swedish champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1962 in the class up to 97 kg body weight (light heavyweight). A year later he started for the first time in international competitions. Although he won an Olympic silver medal in 1964, the years 1969 to 1971 were his most successful. He won four international titles in those years, including two world championships. At the Olympic Games in 1968 and 1972, however, he remained without medals. His toughest opponents in his career were Nikolai Jakowenko , Ferenc Kiss , Nicolae Martinescu , Rostom Abashidze and Bojan Radew. Against all these wrestlers he won or at least fought a draw. In 1974 he ended his career as an active wrestler. He continued to devote himself to wrestling as a functionary in the Swedish and International Wrestling Federation ( FILA ), where he fought primarily against doping.

Per Svensson had completed a law degree as an active athlete. After the end of his wrestling career, he worked as a lawyer. Through his involvement in several prominent criminal cases, he became one of the most famous Swedish lawyers.

Sporting successes

International events

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, HS = light heavyweight, up to 1968 up to 97 kg body weight, S = heavyweight from 1969, up to 100 kg body weight)

• 1963, 4th place , World Championships in Helsingborg , GR, HS, with victories over Renato Zanatta, Italy , Aimo Mypenpää , Finland , Bojan Radew , Bulgaria , a draw against Herbert Albrecht , GDR and a defeat against Rostom Abaschidze , USSR ;
• 1964, silver medal , OS in Tokyo , GR, HS, with victories over Heinz Kiehl , FRG and Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland and a draw against Abachidze and Ferenc Kiss , Hungary ;
• 1965, 4th place , World Championships in Tampere , GR, HS, with victories over Veikko Koivumäki, Finland and Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia and a draw against Josef Prenosil, CSSR and Czesław Kwieciński , Poland ;
• 1966, 3rd place , EM in Essen , GR, HS, with victories over Mäenpää, Eugen Wiesberger, Austria and Stefan Petrow, Bulgaria, a draw against Alexei Karmatzki, USSR and Heinz Kiehl and a defeat against Nicolae Martinescu , Romania ;
• 1966, 5th place , World Championship in Toledo / USA , GR, HS, with victories over Jutzeler, Gürbüz Lü, Turkey, a draw against Ferenc Kiss and a defeat against Valeri Anisimow, USSR;
• 1967, 3rd place , EM in Minsk , GR, HS, with victories over Kwieciński and Jutzeler, a draw against Corak and defeats against Ferenc Kiss and Wassili Merkulow , USSR;
• 1967, 7th place , World Cup in Bucharest , GR, HS, with a draw against Nikolai Jakowenko , USSR and defeats against Jürgen Klinge , GDR and Bojan Radew;
• 1968, 3rd place , EM in Västerås , GR, HS, with wins over Tore Hem, Norway and Ariel De Diego, Spain , a draw against Bojan Radew and a defeat against Martinecsu;
• 1968, 4th place , OS in Mexico City , GR, HS, with victories over Martinescu and Caj Malmberg, Finland and a draw against Tore Hem and Daniel Vernik, Argentina ;
• 1969, 1st place , EM in Modena , GR, S, with victories against Raymond Schummer, Luxembourg and Määnpää and a draw against Alfons Hecher , FRG;
• 1970, 1st place , EM in Berlin , GR, S, with victories over Gerhard Du Prie, Netherlands , Schummer and Marin Kolew, Bulgaria and a draw against Ferenc Kiss and Merkulow;
• 1970, 1st place , World Championships in Edmonton , GR, S, with victories over Giyasettin Yilmaz, Turkey and Vernik, and a draw against Yakowenko, Kiss and Waclaw Orlowski, Poland;
• 1971, 1st place , World Championships in Sofia , GR, S, with victories over Kiss, Klinge, Malmberg, Hem, Lorenz Hecher , FRG and Marin Kolew and despite a defeat against Martinescu;
• 1972, 8th place , OS in Munich , GR, S, after a draw against Christo Ignatow , Bulgaria and a defeat against Tore Hem

National championships

Per Svensson was Swedish champion in the light heavyweight class (97 kg / 100 kg) in Greco-Roman thirteen times in a row from 1962 to 1974. Style.

Web links

• Profile of Per Svensson at the Institute for Applied Exercise Science
• Per Svensson in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ En av de största profilerna har gått bort - Pelle Svensson blev 77 år gammal. In: st.nu. December 17, 2020, accessed December 18, 2020 (Swedish). 
2. ↑ Brottarprofilen Pelle Svensson har avlidit . In: svt.se. December 17, 2020, accessed December 18, 2020 (Swedish).