- Oskari Friman
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Medal record Competitor for 
FinlandMen's Greco-Roman wrestling Olympic Games Gold 1920 Antwerp Featherweight Gold 1924 Paris Lightweight FILA Wrestling World Championships Gold 1921 Helsinki 67.5 kg Oskari Friman (January 27, 1893 – October 19, 1933) was a Finnish wrestler from Vahviala in the Viipuri Province. He was both world champion and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
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Olympics
Friman competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the featherweight class.[1]
At the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris he received a gold medal in the lightweight class.[2]
World championships
He competed at the 1921 FILA Wrestling World Championships where he won the gold medal in the 67.5 kg class.
National championships
Friman won a total of ten Finnish championships, in 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1928.
References
- ^ "1920 Summer Olympics – Antwerp, Belgium – Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 11, 2008)
- ^ "1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 11, 2008)
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