Gates Hem

Tore Hem (born November 12, 1945 in Oslo ) is a former Norwegian wrestler .

Career

Tore Hem began wrestling as a teenager in Oslo. He soon became a member of the then leading Norwegian wrestling club Sportsklubben 09 Oslo . He focused entirely on the Greco-Roman style and won a total of 20 Norwegian championship titles in all age groups (youth, juniors, seniors) in the course of his career. Between 1968 and 1976 he was Norwegian champion nine times in a row among seniors. He was also one of the first Norwegian wrestlers who rose to the expanded international wrestling class after 1945 and won medals at international championships.

In 1965 he started in Tampere for the first time at a world championship. As a young athlete, he suffered defeats in the light heavyweight division against Ferenc Kiss from Hungary and the Japanese Kenjirō Hiraki and ended up in 15th place. He fared not much better at the European Championships in Essen in 1966 , because there, too, he lost his fights in the light heavyweight division against Aimo Mypenpää from Finland and Czesław Kwieciński from Poland and only reached 14th place.

Tore Hem then cut far more successfully at the European Championships in Minsk in 1967 , where he finished 6th. a. against the strong Yugoslav Josip Čorak wrestled a draw and at the world championship of the same year in Bucharest , where he even finished 5th in the light heavyweight division. After a 9th place at the European Championships in Västerås in 1968 , where he lost two absolute world class wrestlers to Bojan Radew from Bulgaria and Per Svensson from Sweden , he did well again with a 5th place at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City . There he defeated Caj Malmberg from Finland and Waclaw Ostrowski from Poland and fought against Per Svensson in a draw.

He then showed himself further improved at the 1969 World Cup in Mar del Plata , which took place that year before the European Championship. He fought there, after a weight class reform by the FILA in the heavyweight division, u. a. against the Swedes Lennart Eriksson and the Romanian Nicolae Martinescu and came after a defeat against Stefan Petrow from Bulgaria on an excellent 4th place. At the European Championships in Modena in 1969 , Tore Hem took advantage of the fact that almost all Eastern Bloc countries were not at the start there and won an EM silver medal with four wins and one defeat against Josip Čorak, to whom he was defeated in the final on points .

In 1970 Tore Hem missed the international championships due to injury. At the World Championships in 1971 in Sofia he was back at the start and came with wins over Daniel Vernik from Argentina a . Willi Williams from the United States and defeats against Vasily Merkulow from the USSR and the reigning world champion Per Svensson in 8th place. In 1972 he disappointed at the European Championships in Katowice , where he finished 9th after defeats against Fredi Albrecht from the GDR and Andrzej Skrzydlewski from Poland, but achieved an excellent result again with 6th place at the Olympic Games in Munich in the heavyweight division . He beat the 1970 world champion Per Svensson and the Finns Aimo Mypenpää . He lost against Christo Ignatow from Bulgaria and Nikolai Jakowenko from the USSR.

Tore Hem also achieved a very good result at the 1975 European Championship in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . He won there against Zdenek Chara from Czechoslovakia and Markku Virtanen from Finland and got an excellent 5th place. Even better, he retired from the 1976 European Championships in Leningrad, where he even defeated two wrestlers from the strong Eastern Bloc countries with Kamen Losanow Goranow from Bulgaria and Andrzej Skrzydlewski from Poland. He came in third place behind Nikolai Balboschin from the USSR and Nicolae Martinescu , against whom he had lost in the finals, and won his second medal at an international championship.

At the end of his career, Tore Hem reached the heavyweight Olympic Games in Montreal in 1976 again with victories over Fredi Albrecht u. Yasunari Akiyama from Japan and after defeats against Brad Rheingans from the United States and Kamen Losanow Goranow a very good 5th place.

International success

(all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, light heavyweight, up to 97 kg up to 1968, then up to 90 kg body weight, heavyweight, from 1969 up to 100 kg body weight)

year	space	competition	Weight class
1965	3.	Nordic championship	Semi-difficult	behind Per Svensson , Sweden and Aimo Mängenpää , Finland
1965	15th	World Cup in Tampere	Semi-difficult	after losses to Ferenc Kiss , Hungary and Kenjirō Hiraki , Japan
1966	14th	EM in Essen	Semi-difficult	after defeats against Aimo Muchtenpää u. Czesław Kwieciński , Poland
1967	4th	Klippan tournament	Semi-difficult	behind Per Svensson , Jürgen Klinge , DDR a . Josip Čorak , Yugoslavia
1967	2.	Alsia Cup in Sønderborg	Semi-difficult	behind Lennart Eriksson , Sweden, in front of Wacław Orłowski , Poland
1967	6th	EM in Minsk	Semi-difficult	after a bye and a tie against Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland a . Josip Čorak
1967	5.	World Cup in Bucharest	Semi-difficult	with a victory over Franz Winkler, Austria a . Defeats against Josip Čorak u. Nikolai Jakovenko , USSR
1968	1.	Nordic championship	Semi-difficult	before Per Svensson u. Aimo Muchtenpää
1968	9.	EM in Västerås	Semi-difficult	with a victory over Peter Jutzeler, Switzerland a. Defeats against Bojan Radew , Bulgaria a . Per Svensson
1968	5.	OS in Mexico City	Semi-difficult	with victories over Caj Malmberg , Finland a . Waclaw Ostrowski, Poland a. Defeats against Bojan Radew u. Per Svensson
1969	2.	Klippan tournament	Heavy	behind Nicolae Martinescu , Romania in front of Nordström, Sweden
1969	1.	Nordic championship	Heavy
1969	4th	World Cup in Mar del Plata	Heavy	with a draw against Lennart Eriksson, Sweden a. Nicolae Martinescu et al. a loss to Stefan Petrow , Bulgaria
1969	2.	EM in Modena	Heavy	with victories over Enzo Nobili, Italy , Robert Zingg, Switzerland, Roland Andersson , Sweden a. Herbert Lins, Austria a . a loss to Josip Čorak
1971	1.	Nordic championships	Heavy	before Nordström, Sweden a. Niemi, Finland
1971	8th.	World Cup in Sofia	Heavy	with victories over Daniel Vernik, Argentina a . Willie Williams, USA a . Defeats against Vasily Merkulow , USSR a. Per Svensson
1972	9.	EM in Katowice	Heavy	after defeats against Fredi Albrecht , GDR a. Andrzej Skrzydlewski , Poland
1972	6th	OS in Munich	Heavy	with victories over Per Svensson u. Aimo Muchtenpää u. Defeats against Christo Ignatow , Bulgaria a. Nikolai Jakovenko , USSR
1973	2.	Nordic championship	Heavy	behind Roland Andersson, Sweden, ahead of Sven-Erik Studsgaard, Denmark
1974	1.	Nordic championship	Heavy	in front of Caj Malmberg, Roland Andersson and Sven-Erik Studsgaard
1974	9.	EM in Madrid	Heavy	after defeats against Nicolae Martinescu a . Kamen Losanow Goranow , Bulgaria
1975	5.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Heavy	with victories over Zdenek Chara, CSSR u. Markku Virtanen, Finland a. Defeats against József Farkas , Hungary a. Nicolae Martinescu
1976	3.	EM in Leningrad	Heavy	with victories over Kamen Losanow Goranow , Caj Malmberg u. Andrzej Skrzydlewski u. Defeats against Nikolai Balboschin , USSR a. Nicolae Martinescu
1976	5.	OS in Montreal	Heavy	with victories over Aysunari Akiyama, Japan a. Fredi Albrecht u. Defeats against Brad Rheingans , USA a. Came Losanov Goranov

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Athletics magazine

Web links

• Tore Hem's profile at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Tore Hem in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )