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Emil Väre

Väre at the 1912 Olympics
Personal information
Birth name	Emil Ernst Väre
Born	28 September 1885 Kärkölä, Grand duchy of Finland
Died	31 January 1974 (aged 88) Kärkölä, Finland
Sport
Sport	Greco-Roman wrestling
Club	Viipurin Voimailijat, Vyborg
Medal record Men's Greco-Roman wrestling Representing  Finland Olympic Games 1912 Stockholm Lightweight 1920 Antwerp Lightweight World Championships 1911 Helsinki 73 kg

Emil Ernst Väre (28 September 1885 – 31 January 1974) was a Finnish wrestler who won the gold medals in the lightweight class at the 1912 and 1920 Summer Olympics.

Väre held the 1911 World title, the 1912 unofficial European title, and the 1909 and 1911 national titles. Between 1912 and 1916, he won all of his wrestling bouts. He retired after the 1920 Olympics to become a wrestling referee and coach. In the 1920s, he acted as president, general secretary, treasurer, and vice-president of his wrestling club Viipurin Voimailijat and was a board member of the Finnish Wrestling Federation.

References

1. other sources spell his name Eemili Ernesti Väre
2. "Emil Väre Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 18 May 2013.
3. "Emil Väre". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 June 2021.

External links

• Emil Väre at the International Wrestling Database
• Emil Väre at Olympics.com
• Emil Väre at databaseOlympics.com (archived)

v t e Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman lightweight
1908:  Enrico Porro (ITA) 1912:  Emil Väre (FIN) 1920:  Emil Väre (FIN) 1924:  Oskari Friman (FIN) 1928:  Lajos Keresztes (HUN) 1932:  Erik Malmberg (SWE) 1936:  Lauri Koskela (FIN) 1948:  Gustav Freij (SWE) 1952:  Shazam Safin (URS) 1956:  Kyösti Lehtonen (FIN) 1960:  Avtandil Koridze (URS) 1964:  Kazım Ayvaz (TUR) 1968:  Muneji Munemura (JPN) 1972:  Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS) 1976:  Suren Nalbandyan (URS) 1980:  Ștefan Rusu (ROM) 1984:  Vlado Lisjak (YUG) 1988:  Levon Julfalakyan (URS) 1992:  Attila Repka (HUN) 1996:  Ryszard Wolny (POL) 2000:  Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) 2004:  Farid Mansurov (AZE) 2008:  Steeve Guénot (FRA) 2012:  Kim Hyeon-woo (KOR) 2016:  Davor Štefanek (SRB) 2020:  Mohammad Reza Geraei (IRI) 2024:  Saeid Esmaeili (IRI)
1908: 66.5 kg 1912–1928: 67.5 kg 1932–1936: 66 kg 1948–1960: 67 kg 1964–1968: 70 kg 1972–1996: 68 kg 2000: 69 kg 2004–2016: 66 kg 2020–present: 67 kg

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