Frithiof Mårtensson Explained

Birth Date:19 May 1884
Birth Place:Eslöv, Sweden
Death Date:20 June 1956 (aged 72)
Death Place:Stockholm, Sweden
Sport:Wrestling
Event:Greco-Roman wrestling
Weight Class:73 kg
Club:IK Sparta, Malmö
Show-Medals:yes

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.

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.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Frithiof Mårtensson . Olympedia . 13 April 2021.