Frithiof Mårtensson
Swedish wrestler (1884–1956)
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Folke Frithiof Martens Mårtensson (19 May 1884 – 20 June 1956) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden.[1] He won the middleweight contests at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the unofficial 1909 European Championships in Malmö.[2][3]
Born19 May 1884
Eslöv, Sweden
Died20 June 1956 (aged 72)
Stockholm, Sweden
SportWrestling
Weightclass
73 kg | |||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 19 May 1884 Eslöv, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 June 1956 (aged 72) Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
Weight class | 73 kg | ||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Club | IK Sparta, Malmö | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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After 1909 Mårtensson moved to Copenhagen for training as a dental technician and in 1913 to the United States. Two years later he returned to Stockholm, where he died in 1956.[3]
