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
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- 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)
- 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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