Tuomo Arto Mikael Karila (born 7 April 1968) is a Finnish former Olympic wrestler. He was born in

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, Finland. His nickname is Tuoppi.

Wrestling career

His sports club was Vantaan Sampo, in

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, in Finland. In 1986, he won the Minnesota high school Class A 155-pound wrestling title as an 18-year-old exchange student at Canby High School, after a 29-3-1 season wrestling in three different weight classes."Faces in the Crowd," ''Sports Illustrated''
April 21, 1986 He won

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s at the 1990 and 1991 European Championships at 74.0 kg. in

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wrestling. Karila competed for

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, at the age of 24, in Wrestling--Men's Welterweight (74 kg), Greco-Roman. He won a silver medal at the

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at 82.0 kg. in Greco-Roman wrestling. Karila competed for Finland at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta at the age of 28, in Wrestling--Men's Middleweight (82 kg), Greco-Roman, and came in 11th.

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* Sportspeople from Helsinki Olympic wrestlers for Finland Wrestlers at the 1992 Summer Olympics 1968 births Finnish male sport wrestlers Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Living people 20th-century Finnish people 21st-century Finnish people World Wrestling Championships medalists {{Finland-wrestling-bio-stub