Gustav Freij

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Olympic medal record
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Competitor for Sweden
Gold	1948 London	Lightweight
Silver	1952 Helsinki	Lightweight
Bronze	1960 Rome	Lightweight

Karl Gustav Herbert Freij (March 17, 1922 – August 4, 1973) was a Swedish wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics, in the 1952 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

He was born in Silvåkra and died in Malmö.

Freij was world lightweight (67 kg.) Greco-Roman wrestling bronze medalist at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe, behind gold medalist Grigory Gamarnik of the USSR and silver medalist Kyösti Lehtonen of Finland.

In 1948 he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition. Four years later he won the silver medal in the same event. He ended his Olympic career in 1960 with a bronze medal in the Greco-Roman lightweight competition again.

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v t e Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman lightweight

1908: Enrico Porro 1912: Emil Väre 1920: Emil Väre 1924: Oskari Friman 1928: Lajos Keresztes 1932: Erik Malmberg 1936: Lauri Koskela 1948: Gustav Freij 1952: Shazam Safin 1956: Kyösti Lehtonen 1960: Avtandil Koridze 1964: Kazım Ayvaz 1968: Muneji Munemura 1972: Shamil Khisamutdinov 1976: Suren Nalbandyan 1980: Ştefan Rusu 1984: Vlado Lisjak 1988: Levon Julfalakyan 1992: Attila Repka 1996: Ryszard Wolny 2000: Filiberto Azcuy 2004: Farid Mansurov 2008: Steeve Guénot 2012: Kim Hyeon-Woo

-66.6 kg (1908) -67.5 kg (1912–1928) -66 kg (1932–1936) -67 kg (1948–1960) -70 kg (1964–1968) -68 kg (1972–1996) -69 kg (2000) -66 kg (2004–Present)

Persondata
Name	Freij, Gustav
Alternative names
Short description	Olympic wrestler
Date of birth	March 17, 1922
Place of birth
Date of death	August 4, 1973
Place of death

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