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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.
Triple Olympic champion Ivar Johansson achieved the rarest of feats in Los Angeles in 1932 as he sealed gold in both styles of wrestling and two different weight categories.
Ivar Johansson may refer to: Ivar Johansson (director) (1889–1963), Swedish film director. Ivar Johansson (politician) (1899–unknown), Swedish politician. Ivar Johansson (wrestler) (1903–1979), Swedish wrestler.
Ivar Valentin Johansson, [1] född 31 januari 1903 i Kuddby, Vikbolandet, död 4 augusti 1979 i Norrköping, [2] var en svensk brottare och polis från Norrköping. Han erövrade tre olympiska brottningsguld, varav två under samma OS (1932, i två olika viktklasser).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Le plus célèbre policier de Norrköping. Ivar Valentin Johansson est un policier et un lutteur émérite de la ville de Norrköping (136km au sud de la capitale suédoise Stockholm) qui dispute à 25 ans ses premiers Jeux Olympiques en style Gréco-Romain, à Amsterdam en 1928 dans la catégorie poids moyens.
