Rauno Mäkinen

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Rauno Leonard Mäkinen (born January 22, 1931 in Pori , † September 9, 2010 in Vaajakoski, rural municipality Jyväskylä ) was a Finnish wrestler .

Career

Rauno Mäkinen grew up in Jyväskylä in central Finland and started wrestling there when he was young at the sports club “Työvänen Painisema”. This club belonged to the Finnish Workers' Sports Association TUL , which was widespread at the time and still exists today. At the age of 18 he joined the police and therefore switched to the police sports clubs in Jyväskylä and Tampere . In the youth and junior sector, he won several Finnish championships in his respective age and weight classes. As a senior, he won his first Finnish featherweight wrestling championship in 1952. He initially wrestled in the free style, but then switched to the Greco-Roman style in 1955.

In 1952 his international career began when he was used in free style featherweight at the Helsinki Olympics . He won three fights, but retired after the fourth round because of a loss to the eventual Olympic champion Bayram Şit from Turkey .

For Mäkinen there was now a four-year break from international championships. This was due to the fact that at that time the European and World Championships were only held alternately in the two styles. For this reason, between 1952 and 1956 in free style only in 1954 World Championships took place in Tokyo , where the Finnish Wrestling Association could only send two wrestlers for cost reasons. Mäkinen wasn't there.

So he had to wait until the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne before he could start again at a "highlight". Mäkinen started in the Greco-Roman style for the first time and made it a real “highlight” for himself, because he became Olympic champion after hard fights with Imre Polyák from Hungary and Roman Dsneladze from the Soviet Union , in which these three wrestlers defeated each other .

Between 1956 and 1960 Mäkinen did not start again at any international championships. It was not until 1960 that he qualified again for the Olympic Games in Rome . There he was very unlucky when he injured himself in his second fight and had to give up.

Rauno Mäkinen was also multiple European police featherweight champion.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight)

Most important international battles

  • 1954, Sweden - Finland, GR, Fe, points victory over Gunnar Hakansson
  • 1954, Sweden - Finland, F, Fe, points victory over A. Ahlin
  • 1955, Germany - Finland, GR, Fe, points victory over Helmut Höhenberger
  • 1960, Finland - Sweden, GR, Fe, points victory over Jan Wassbjer
  • 1960, Finland - Sweden, GR, Fe, points victory over Knut Johanesson

Finnish championships

  • 1952, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Veikko Rauhala and Ilmari Ruikka
  • 1953, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Markus Perälä and Niilo Köykkä
  • 1954, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Matti Jutila and Perälä
  • 1955, 1st place, F, Fe, ahead of Sakari Määnpää and Tapani Kuparinen
  • 1956, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Määnpää and Sakari Kinnunen
  • 1957, 2nd place, Gr, Le, behind Kyösti Lehtonen and in front of Veikko Alanen
  • 1960, 1st place, GR, Fe, ahead of Tauno Jaskari and Määnpää
  • 1961, 2nd place, GR, Le, behind Seppo Mikkola and in front of Erkki Lehto

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://painiliitto.net/uutisarkisto_10/09-09-2010_rauno_makinen_kuollut.php
personal data
SURNAME Mäkinen, Rauno
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mäkinen, Rauno Leonard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH January 22, 1931
PLACE OF BIRTH Pori
DATE OF DEATH September 9, 2010
Place of death Vaajakoski, Jyväskylä rural municipality