Frithiof_Mårtensson

Frithiof Mårtensson

Frithiof Mårtensson

Swedish wrestler

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]

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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]

References

  1. [1]
    "Frithiof Mårtensson". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
  2. [2]
    Frithiof Mårtensson Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
  3. [3]
    Frithiof Mårtensson. Swedish Olympic Committee


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