Kurt Pettersén
Swedish wrestler (1916–1957)
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Born | 21 June 1916 Borås, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 15 November 1957 (aged 41) Borås, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Borås BK | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Kurt Arne Pettersén (21 June 1916 – 15 November 1957) was a bantamweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden who won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He won silver medals at the European championships in 1938 and 1939 (Greco-Roman) and 1949 (freestyle).[1]
Kurt was born in a family of 11 siblings with Norwegian roots. Between 1936 and 1951 he won 22 Swedish titles in wrestling. He died of cancer aged 41.[2]
References
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- 1924
Eduard Pütsep (EST)
- 1928
Kurt Leucht (GER)
- 1932
Jakob Brendel (GER)
- 1936
Márton Lőrincz (HUN)
- 1948
Kurt Pettersén (SWE)
- 1952
Imre Hódos (HUN)
- 1956
Konstantin Vyrupayev (URS)
- 1960
Oleg Karavayev (URS)
- 1964
Masamitsu Ichiguchi (JPN)
- 1968
János Varga (HUN)
- 1972
Rustam Kazakov (URS)
- 1976
Pertti Ukkola (FIN)
- 1980
Shamil Serikov (URS)
- 1984
Pasquale Passarelli (FRG)
- 1988
András Sike (HUN)
- 1992
An Han-bong (KOR)
- 1996
Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ)
- 2000
Armen Nazaryan (BUL)
- 2004
István Majoros (HUN)
- 2008
Nazyr Mankiev (RUS)
- 2012
Hamid Sourian (IRI)
- 2016
Ismael Borrero (CUB)
- 2020
Luis Orta (CUB)
- 1924–1928: 58 kg
- 1932–1936: 56 kg
- 1948–1996: 57 kg
- 2000: 58 kg
- 2004–2012: 55 kg
- 2016: 59 kg
- 2020–present: 60 kg
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