Emil Väre
Väre at the 1912 Olympics | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Birth name | Emil Ernst Väre | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | 28 September 1885 Kärkölä, Grand duchy of Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 31 January 1974 (aged 88) Kärkölä, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Viipurin Voimailijat, Vyborg | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Emil Ernst Väre[1] (28 September 1885 – 31 January 1974) was a Finnish wrestler who won the gold medals in the lightweight class at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics.[2]
Väre held the 1911 World title, the 1912 unofficial European title, and 1909 and 1911 national titles. Between 1912 and 1916 he won all his wrestling bouts. He retired after the 1920 Olympics to become a wrestling referee and coach. In the 1920s he acted a president, general-secretary, treasurer and vice-president of his wrestling club Viipurin Voimailijat and was a board member of the Finnish Wrestling Federation.[3]
References
External links
- Emil Väre at databaseOlympics.com
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- 1908: Enrico Porro (ITA)
- 1912: Emil Väre (FIN)
- 1920: Emil Väre (FIN)
- 1924: Oskari Friman (FIN)
- 1928: Lajos Keresztes (HUN)
- 1932: Erik Malmberg (SWE)
- 1936: Lauri Koskela (FIN)
- 1948: Gustav Freij (SWE)
- 1952: Shazam Safin (URS)
- 1956: Kyösti Lehtonen (FIN)
- 1960: Avtandil Koridze (URS)
- 1964: Kazım Ayvaz (TUR)
- 1968: Muneji Munemura (JPN)
- 1972: Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS)
- 1976: Suren Nalbandyan (URS)
- 1980: Ștefan Rusu (ROM)
- 1984: Vlado Lisjak (YUG)
- 1988: Levon Julfalakyan (URS)
- 1992: Attila Repka (HUN)
- 1996: Ryszard Wolny (POL)
- 2000: Filiberto Azcuy (CUB)
- 2004: Farid Mansurov (AZE)
- 2008: Steeve Guénot (FRA)
- 2012: Kim Hyeon-woo (KOR)
- 2016: Davor Štefanek (SRB)
- 2020: Mohammad Reza Geraei (IRI)
- 2024: Saeid Esmaeili (IRI)
- 1908: 66.5 kg
- 1912–1928: 67.5 kg
- 1932–1936: 66 kg
- 1948–1960: 67 kg
- 1964–1968: 70 kg
- 1972–1996: 68 kg
- 2000: 69 kg
- 2004–2016: 66 kg
- 2020–present: 67 kg
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