Lauri Koskela
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Born | 16 May 1907 Lapua, Finland | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 3 August 1944 (aged 37) Baryshevo, Leningrad, Russia | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 167 cm (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62–68 kg (137–150 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Lapuan Virkiä | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Lauri Koskela (16 May 1907 – 3 August 1944) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1932 and 1936 Olympics and won a bronze and a gold medal, respectively.[1] Koskela was the European champion in 1935, 1937 and 1938 and placed third in 1939. Domestically, he won seven titles in 1932–33, 1936 and 1940–43.[2]
Kidnapping and death
Koskela lived in Lapua, South Ostrobothnia, where he worked at the State Cartridge Factory. Koskela was a member of the local trade union branch and the Communist Party of Finland. In 1930, he was kidnapped by the fascist Lapua Movement. Koskela represented the left-wing club Ponnistus until the fall of 1930, when he joined the right-wing Virkiä in order to make it to the Olympics, as the Finnish Workers' Sports Federation did not participate the games.[2] Koskela was killed in action during the Continuation War in 1944.[3]
See also
- List of kidnappings
- List of solved missing person cases
References
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- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lauri Koskela". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 4 March 2016.
- ^ a b "Lauri Koskela (1907–1944)". Helemi – Lapua Historical Database (in Finnish). 24 July 2013. Retrieved 27 October 2020.
- ^ "Olympians Who Were Killed or Missing in Action or Died as a Result of War". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2018.
External links
- Lauri Koskela at the International Wrestling Database
- Lauri Koskela at Olympics.com
- Lauri Koskela at Olympedia
- Lauri Koskela at Olympiakomitea.fi (in Finnish)
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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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