Ivar Stokke
Ivar Gunnar Stokke (26 January 1911 – 22 July 1993) was a
sport wrestler who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
.
He was born in Kristiansund, but represented the sports club SK av 1909. He participated in the bantamweight class in wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated after the third round.[1] He also won a bronze medal at the 1939 European Wrestling Championships.[2] Stokke was a railway worker by trade.[3]
During the Second World War
Grini concentration camp on 17 July 1943 and issued prisoner number 12164. Stokke was later deported to Germany, spending time in captivity in Hamburg, Kiel and Lübeck, before being transferred back to Norway and released on 24 December 1944.[3][4][5]
References
- ^ "Ivar Stokke". Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2 November 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Archived from the originalon 9 October 2012. Retrieved 25 July 2010.
- ^ ISBN 8200223728.
- ^ Stetson (1945). Idrettsfrontens kamp: utdrag av jøssingidrettens saga 1941-1945 (in Norwegian). Oslo: Halvorsens bokhandel. p. 47.
- ^ Børre R. Giertsen, ed. (1946). "12164. Stokke, Ivar Gunnar". Norsk fangeleksikon. Grinifangene (in Norwegian). Oslo: Cappelen. p. 431.