Verner Weckman

Verner Weckman

Verner Johan Weckman , Vuorineuvos (born July 26, 1882 in Loviisa , † February 22, 1968 in Helsinki ) was a Finnish wrestler .

Career

Verner Weckman grew up in Helsinki and started wrestling there in 1902 at the Helsingin Atleettiklubi (HAK). He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style common in Europe at the time . It was only two years before he won his first Finnish heavyweight championship. In 1905 he went to study at the Technical University in Karlsruhe and started in the German championships in 1906, where he took second place in the heavyweight division behind Ulrich Gemmel from Nuremberg.

A year earlier he had started at the world championship in Duisburg and won the world title there in front of nine German wrestlers. At the Olympic Intermediate Games in Athens in 1906, he proved that this success was no accident . Verner Weckman became an Olympic middleweight champion. In the final battle, he defeated the Austrian Rudolf Lindmayer. In the competition of the three class winners he lost to the heavyweight class winner Søren Marinus Jensen from Denmark and won over Rudolf Watzl from Austria , with which he had won a silver medal.

In 1908 he was in London in the light heavyweight (up to 93 kg body weight) again Olympic champion before his compatriot Yrjö Saarela and Carl Jensen from Denmark.

After these games, Verner Weckman resigned and worked as an engineer in Finland. In 1953 he was awarded the Finnish honorary title Vuorineuvos by the President of the Republic of Finland .

International championships

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight)

• 1905, 1st place , World Championships in Duisburg , GR, S (over 85 kg body weight), ahead of Friedrich Müller, Gustav Sperling , Christoph Bähringhausen a. August Kunst, all Germany ;
• 1906, gold medal , OS in Athens , GR, Wed (up to 85 kg body weight), before Rudolf Lindmayer, Austria a . Robert Behrens, Denmark;
• 1906, silver medal , OS in Athens, GR, class without weight limit, behind Søren Marinus Jensen , Denmark a. before Rudolf Watzl , Austria;
• 1908, gold medal , OS in London , GR, Hs (up to 93 kg body weight), before Yrjö Saarela , Finland, Carl Jensen , Denmark a. Hugo Payr, Hungary

Finnish championships

• 1904, 1st place , GR, S (over 70 kg body weight), before Adolf Lindfors , Porvoon Akilles u. Knut Lindberg, HAK

German championships

• 1906, 2nd place , Gr, S (over 85 kg body weight), behind Ulrich Gemmel, Nuremberg a . in front of Gustav Sperling, Essen

swell

• 1) DOCUMENTATION of the FILA International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• 2) Yearbook 1972 of the German Wrestling Federation, Athletik-Verlag, Karlsruhe, 1972
• 4) Website of the Finnish Wrestling Federation about the Finnish championships

Web links

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