Väinö Kajander

Väinö Viktor Kajander , later Kajukorpi , (born November 30, 1893 in Elimäki , † September 16, 1978 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish wrestler .

Career

Väinö Kajander started for the club " Helsingin Jyry", which belonged to the Finnish Workers' Sports Association (TUL).

At the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he won the silver medal in the class up to 72 kg (welterweight) in the Greco-Roman style. He got this start because he emigrated to the United States in the late 1920s. Even though he was 39 years old, he offered to represent Finland at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles in 1932 . Although Finland had the European welterweight champion in 1930 and 1931 in Mikko Nordling and thus the best wrestler in the world in this weight class, this offer was accepted in order to save the travel costs for an athlete. Mikko Nordling had to stay in Finland.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Result
1932	silver	OS in Los Angeles	Welter	with victories over Börge Jensen, Denmark , Ercole Gallegati , Italy a . Shuichi Yoshida, Japan and one loss to Ivar Johansson , Sweden

Finnish Championships of TUL

• 1919, 2nd place , GR, up to 75 kg, behind Sigfried Sjöberg and in front of Arvo Enberg
• 1920, 1st place , GR, up to 75 kg, ahead of Sigfried Sjöberg and Otto Luukkainen
• 1921, 1st place , GR, up to 75 kg, ahead of Sigfried Sjöberg and Evert Salonen
• 1923, 1st place , GR, up to 75 kg, in front of Eero Ruusala
• 1924, 2nd place , GR, up to 75 kg, behind Väinö Kokkinen
• 1926, 1st place , GR, up to 75 kg, ahead of Paavo Oksa
• 1927, 2nd place , GR, up to 75 kg, behind Kalle Tammi and in front of Mikko Nordling
• 1928, 1st place , GR, up to 75 kg, ahead of Evert Salonen and Vilho Koskela

Web links

• Profile of Väinö Kajander at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Väinö Kajander in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )