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| Born | 19 May 1884 Eslöv, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 20 June 1956 (aged 72) Stockholm, Sweden | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Weight class | 73 kg | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Club | IK Sparta, Malmö | ||||||||||||||
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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.
References
- "Frithiof Mårtensson". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- Frithiof Mårtensson Archived 5 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Frithiof Mårtensson. Swedish Olympic Committee
External links
- Frithiof Mårtensson at the International Wrestling Database
- Frithiof Mårtensson at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
- Frithiof Mårtensson at Olympedia
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