Ivar Gunnar Stokke (26 January 1911 – 22 July 1993) was a

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sport wrestler Amateur wrestling is a variant of wrestling practiced in collegiate, school, or other amateur level competitions. There are two international wrestling styles performed in the Olympic Games: freestyle and Greco-Roman. Both styles are under the s ...

who competed in the

1936 Summer Olympics The 1936 Summer Olympics (German: ''Olympische Sommerspiele 1936''), officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad (German: ''Spiele der XI. Olympiade'') and commonly known as Berlin 1936 or the Nazi Olympics, were an international multi-sp ...

. He was born in

Kristiansund Kristiansund (, ; historically spelled Christianssund and earlier named Fosna) is a municipality on the western coast of Norway in the Nordmøre district of Møre og Romsdal county. The administrative center of the municipality is the town of ...

, but represented the sports club

SK av 1909 Sportsklubben av 1909, often shortened as Sp-09 or Sportsklubben, is a Norwegian sports club from Oslo, founded in 1909. It has sections for amateur boxing and amateur wrestling, and has had several Olympians on its books. History It was founde ...

. He participated in the bantamweight class in

wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics At the 1936 Summer Olympics, 14 wrestling events were contested, all for men. There were seven weight classes in Greco-Roman wrestling and seven classes in freestyle wrestling. Medal table Medal summary Freestyle Greco-Roman Participatin ...

, where he was eliminated after the third round. He also won a bronze medal at the 1939 European Wrestling Championships. Stokke was a railway worker by trade. During the Second World War

German occupation of Norway The occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany during the Second World War began on 9 April 1940 after Operation Weserübung. Conventional armed resistance to the German invasion ended on 10 June 1940, and Nazi Germany controlled Norway until the ...

, Stokke was arrested twice by the Germans in 1943. In the first instance he was arrested on 23 March 1943 and imprisoned first at

Åkebergveien Åkebergveien is a street in Oslo, Norway. The street is named after the former farm Åkeberg. ''Åkebergveien 11'' formerly belonged to the brewery Ytteborgs Aktiebryggeri. In 1934 the building was acquired by the city of Oslo, and after rebuil ...

, then

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, before being released on 28 May 1943. Rearrested on 1 July 1943, he was held at Møllergata 19, before being transferred to

Grini concentration camp '', '' no, Grini fangeleir'', location=Bærum, Viken, Norway, location map=Viken#Norway, built by=Norway, original use=Constructed as a women's prison, operated by=Nazi Germany, notable inmates= List of Grini prisoners, liberated by=Harry Söderma ...

on 17 July 1943 and issued prisoner number 12164. Stokke was later deported to Germany, spending time in captivity in

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and

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, before being transferred back to Norway and released on 24 December 1944.

References

1911 births 1993 deaths Sportspeople from Kristiansund Bantamweight boxers Wrestlers at the 1936 Summer Olympics Norwegian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Norway Grini concentration camp survivors Norwegian people imprisoned abroad 20th-century Norwegian people {{Norway-wrestling-bio-stub