European wrestling championships 1939

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The European Wrestling Championships in 1939 took place in Oslo at the end of April . As in 1938 in Tallinn just one tournament in Greco-Roman wrestling was held 1939th The most successful nation was Sweden with three first places.

A little later after the tournament, the Second World War began and the European championships were suspended until the European championships in 1946 .

Results

class gold silver bronze
-56 kg FinlandFinland Kauko Kiisseli SwedenSweden Kurt Pettersén Ivar Stokke
NorwayNorway
-61 kg FinlandFinland Kustaa Pihlajamäki German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Ferdinand Schmitz Hungary 1918Hungary Ferenc Tóth
-66 kg SwedenSweden Gosta Andersson TurkeyTurkey Yasar Dogu FinlandFinland Lauri Koskela
-72 kg German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Fritz Schäfer EstoniaEstonia Edgar Puusepp FinlandFinland Eino Virtanen
-79 kg SwedenSweden Ivar Johansson German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) Ludwig Schweickert FinlandFinland Arvi Pikkusaari
-87 kg SwedenSweden Nils Åkerlindh TurkeyTurkey Mustafa Çakmak EstoniaEstonia August Neo
+87 kg EstoniaEstonia Johannes Kotkas SwedenSweden John Nyman Hungary 1918Hungary Gyula Bóbis

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 SwedenSweden Sweden 3 1 0
2 FinlandFinland Finland 2 0 3
3 German Reich NSGerman Reich (Nazi era) German Empire 1 2 0
4th EstoniaEstonia Estonia 1 1 1
5 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 0 2 0
6th NorwayNorway Norway 0 1 0
7th Hungary 1918Hungary Hungary 0 0 2