Lauri Koskela

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Lauri Koskela (May 16, 1907, Lapua – August 3, 1944) was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Olympics

Koskela competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the lightweight class.^[1] He received a bronze medal at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles.

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)

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