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

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who competed in the

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. He was born in

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

, but represented the sports club

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. He participated in the bantamweight class in

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, 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

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

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, 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

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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 sportsmen {{Norway-wrestling-bio-stub