Axel Grönberg
Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler
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| Born | 9 May 1918 Norberg, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 23 April 1988 (aged 69) Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | BK Athén, Stockholm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Rolf Axel "Acke" Ejnar Grönberg (9 May 1918 – 23 April 1988) was a Swedish wrestler, who won the Greco-Roman middleweight division at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics.[1]
Grönberg was raised in Norberg, but moved to Stockholm as a teenager. There he worked as a plumber and masseur, and started wrestling following his elder brothers Fritz and Harald. Besides his Olympic medals he won a world title in 1950, three European Championship medals, as well as 16 national titles between 1944 and 1958.[2]
References
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- 1908
Frithiof Mårtensson (SWE) - 1912 Claes Johanson (SWE)
- 1920 Carl Westergren (SWE)
- 1924
Edvard Westerlund (FIN) - 1928 Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1932 Väinö Kokkinen (FIN)
- 1936 Ivar Johansson (SWE)
- 1948 Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1952 Axel Grönberg (SWE)
- 1956
Givi Kartozia (URS) - 1960
Dimitar Dobrev (BUL) - 1964
Branislav Simić (YUG) - 1968
Lothar Metz (GDR) - 1972
Csaba Hegedűs (HUN) - 1976 Momir Petković (YUG)
- 1980 Gennady Korban (URS)
- 1984
Ion Draica (ROM) - 1988 Mikhail Mamiashvili (URS)
- 1992 Péter Farkas (HUN)
- 1996
Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR) - 2000 Hamza Yerlikaya (TUR)
- 2004
Aleksey Mishin (RUS) - 2008
Andrea Minguzzi (ITA) - 2012 Alan Khugaev (RUS)
- 2016 Davit Chakvetadze (RUS)
- 2020
Zhan Beleniuk (UKR)
- 1908: 73 kg
- 1912–1928: 75 kg
- 1932–1960: 79 kg
- 1964–1968: 87 kg
- 1972–1996: 82 kg
- 2000: 85 kg
- 2004–2012: 84 kg
- 2016: 85 kg
- 2020–present: 87 kg
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