European Wrestling Championships 1938

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The European Wrestling Championships in 1938 took place in Tallinn in Estonia at the end of April . There was only one Greco-Roman style tournament.

Results

class gold silver bronze
-56 kg FinlandFinland Väinö Perttunen SwedenSweden Kurt Pettersen German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Ferdinand Schmitz
-61 kg FinlandFinland Kustaa Pihlajamäki SwedenSweden Egon Svensson NorwayNorway Egil Solsvik
-66 kg FinlandFinland Lauri Koskela German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Heinrich Nettesheim SwedenSweden Gosta Andersson
-72 kg German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Fritz Schäfer SwedenSweden Rudolf Svedberg FinlandFinland Antti Mäki
-79 kg SwedenSweden Ivar Johansson LatviaLatvia George's Ozolins EstoniaEstonia Voldemar Roolaan
-87 kg SwedenSweden Axel Cadier EstoniaEstonia Nikolai Karklin German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Werner Seelenbinder
+87 kg EstoniaEstonia Johannes Kotkas SwedenSweden John Nyman TurkeyTurkey Mehmet Çoban

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 FinlandFinland Finland 3 0 1
2 SwedenSweden Sweden 2 5 1
3 German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire 1 1 2
4th EstoniaEstonia Estonia 1 1 1
5 LatviaLatvia Latvia 0 1 0
6th TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 0 1
NorwayNorway Norway 0 0 1