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Ivar Valentin Johansson (31 January 1903 – 4 August 1979) was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman welterweight and freestyle middleweight events.
Norrkoping’s best known lawman. Born in the town of Norrkoping, 136km south of Swedish capital Stockholm, policeman Ivar Valentin Johansson competed in his first Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928 in the Greco-Roman middleweight wrestling competition. Though he lost two of his three fights and finished in ninth place on that occasion ...
Biography. Ivar Johansson was one of Sweden’s greatest ever wrestlers. He also is likely the greatest wrestler ever to not have won a world championship. Johansson did, however, win three Olympic gold medals – a record he shares with Aleksandr Medved, Carl Westergren, and Aleksandr Karelin. Johansson is also one of three wrestlers to have ...
Ivar Valentin Johansson was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1928, 1932 and 1936 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman welterweight and freestyle middleweight events.
Ivar Valentin Johansson (né le 31 janvier 1903 à Norrköping et mort le 4 août 1979 dans la même ville) est un lutteur suédois, pratiquant la lutte libre et la lutte gréco-romaine . Il dispute quatre éditions des Jeux olympiques ; il est éliminé au troisième tour en lutte gréco-romaine en 1928 à Amsterdam en moins de 75 kg, et ...
Ivar Lo-Johansson (23 February 1901 – 11 April 1990) was a Swedish writer of the proletarian school. His autobiographical 1978 memoir, Pubertet ( Puberty ), won the Nordic Council's Literature Prize in 1979.
He and Johansson - who added a third career gold in Berlin - remain the only two wrestlers to achieve the single-Games double. Los Angeles 1932 In a noteworthy display of versatility - and dieting - Swedish policeman Ivar Johansson captured a freestyle gold medal, then fasted and hit the sauna to shed 10-plus pounds so he could enter Greco-Roman's 72kg (158.5 lbs) division, which he also won.
