European wrestling championships 1946

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The European wrestling championships in 1946 were held in Stockholm . It was the first European championships after the Second World War.

There was only one competition in freestyle, held in eight weight classes.

Results

class gold silver bronze
-52 kg FinlandFinland Lennart Viitala SwedenSweden Malte Hakansson FranceFrance Georges Labadie
-57 kg Hungary 1946Hungary Lajos Bencze TurkeyTurkey Nasuh Akar FinlandFinland Erkki Johansson
-62 kg TurkeyTurkey Gazanfer bilge SwedenSweden Olle Anderberg FinlandFinland Paavo Hietala
-67 kg TurkeyTurkey Celal Atik SwedenSweden Gösta Jönsson-Frändfors FinlandFinland Lauri Kangas
-73 kg TurkeyTurkey Yasar Dogu Hungary 1946Hungary Kalman Sovari SwitzerlandSwitzerland Karl Schaad
-79 kg FinlandFinland Eino Virtanen TurkeyTurkey Mahmut Ceterez SwedenSweden Axel Groenberg
-87 kg SwedenSweden Bengt Fahlkvist SwitzerlandSwitzerland Fritz Stöckli TurkeyTurkey Muharrem Candaş
+87 kg SwedenSweden Bertil Antonsson SwitzerlandSwitzerland Willy Lardon TurkeyTurkey Mehmet Çoban

Medal table

rank country gold silver bronze
1 TurkeyTurkey Turkey 3 2 1
2 SwedenSweden Sweden 2 3 2
3 FinlandFinland Finland 2 0 2
4th Hungary 1946Hungary Hungary 1 1 0
5 SwitzerlandSwitzerland Switzerland 0 2 1