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Frithiof Mårtensson

1884 - 1956

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Folke Frithiof Martens Mårtensson (19 May 1884 – 20 June 1956) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden. He won the middleweight contests at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London and at the unofficial 1909 European Championships in Malmö. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Frithiof Mårtensson is the 178th most popular wrestler (up from 191st in 2019), the 789th most popular biography from Sweden (up from 996th in 2019) and the 12th most popular Swedish Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Frithiof Mårtensson ranks 178 out of 1,027Before him are Tazz, Dietmar Lorenz, Sasha Banks, Tyrus, Axel Cadier, and Bertil Antonsson. After him are Georg Gehring, Ödön Zombori, Nikolai Volkoff, Mahmut Atalay, Pedro Morales, and Daniel Robin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1884, Frithiof Mårtensson ranks 190Before him are József Rády, Olle Lanner, Michel de Klerk, Fumio Gotō, Krishna Raja Wadiyar IV, and Kostas Varnalis. After him are Georgi Kyoseivanov, León Felipe, Guy de Luget, Armand Massard, Georges Pitoëff, and Margit Slachta. Among people deceased in 1956, Frithiof Mårtensson ranks 168Before him are Juan José de Amézaga, René Bougnol, César Espinoza, Max Beerbohm, Augustin Chantrel, and Pelageya Shajn. After him are E. T. Whittaker, Pierre Allemane, Marie Juchacz, Nikolai Panin, Fernand Jourdant, and Georg Brustad.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Frithiof Mårtensson ranks 789 out of 1,879Before him are Jens Johansson (1963), Lennart Samuelsson (1924), Axel Cadier (1906), Peter Tägtgren (1970), Bertil Antonsson (1921), and Stellan Nilsson (1922). After him are Göran Therborn (1941), Dagmar Lange (1914), Greta Johansson (1895), Ann-Britt Leyman (1922), Ann-Sofi Pettersson (1932), and Tom Turesson (1942).

Among WRESTLERS In Sweden

Among wrestlers born in Sweden, Frithiof Mårtensson ranks 12Before him are Axel Grönberg (1918), Carl Westergren (1895), Anders Larsson (1892), Erik Malmberg (1897), Axel Cadier (1906), and Bertil Antonsson (1921). After him are Claes Johanson (1884), Knut Fridell (1908), Gustav Freij (1922), Pelle Svensson (1943), Lars-Erik Skiöld (1952), and Frank Andersson (1956).