Sofia Mattsson - world champion wrestler

**Monsieur** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 6:31pm

On behalf of all the swedes at Bullshido, I'd like to gratulate swedish 19-year old freestyle wrestler Sofia Mattsson for winning the 51 kilo/112 lbs -division at the 2009 FILA World Championship.

This makes her the first swedish world champion wrestler in thirteen years.

Due to Bullshido's "Female Fighters and You"-policy, I will not mention anything whatsoever about her looks. Nothing. Zip. Nada.

Here's a clip from swedish television, for those of you who understand swedish. I can't see any reason whatsoever why anyone else would want to see it.

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**Rivington** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 6:51pm

http://www.thelocal.se/7048/20070419/

Swedish wrestler Sofia Mattsson fought hard for a bronze medal at the European Wrestling Championships in Bulgaria on Wednesday.

Mattsson, already a junior world Greco-Roman wrestling champion, was understandably jubilant after a third-place finish in the 48 kilo division in her first ever championship at senior level.

"This is the biggest thing to happen in my career so far," she told Aftonbladet.

But the 17-year-old from Gällivare in the far north of Sweden refused to accept another prize - the organizers awarded her with the title Miss Europe, a prize reserved for the prettiest wrestler at the European Championships.

"This is not part of the sport. We are here to excel and win at wrestling. There are some people who compete in that other thing too but we don't do that here," said Mattsson.

Team captain Patrik Jansson was furious about the unwanted accolade.

"It's a load of rubbish! There are old codgers sitting there deciding who is the prettiest. It's terrible," he told Aftonbladet.

According to Jansson, beauty competitions are commonplace at Eastern European wrestling events.

"In Poland last year one of our girls was named Miss Warsaw Open and we just told them straight out: 'forget it!'," said Jansson.

The captain was also less than pleased with the judging in Mattsson's quarter final, which Mattsson lost to Larisa Oorzak from Russia.

"She would have taken the gold if the judging hadn't been so strange there," said Jansson.

**3moose1** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 8:18pm

Awesome! It seems that female wrestling is often overlooked!

Spoiler:

**animlmthr** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 10:01pm

no vids of the matches?

**SaintHamish** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 10:27pm

*scratches balls*

**SaintHamish** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 10:29pm

It got pretty tense......but the swede pulled it off in the end.....

**Monsieur** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 10:29pm

There's some footage from her win in the final match against the korean Han in the tv-feature: http://svt.se/embededflash/1706232/play.swf .

Here's another fairly impressive win from an earlier championship:

YouTube - 48kg FW DASKOVA Martina CZE - MATTSSON Sofia SWE

**Blue Negation** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 10:59pm

Some wonderfully dominant wrestling on display. Mattsson has got some skills.

oh, and **** off sainthamish.

**SaintHamish** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 11:20pm

Originally Posted by Blue Negation

Some wonderfully dominant wrestling on display. Mattsson has got some skills.

oh, and **** off sainthamish.

:pity:

**theotherserge** · Posted On: 9/27/2009 11:46pm

Originally Posted by Monsieur

There's some footage from her win in the final match against the korean Han in the tv-feature: http://svt.se/embededflash/1706232/play.swf .

Here's another fairly impressive win from an earlier championship:

YouTube - 48kg FW DASKOVA Martina CZE - MATTSSON Sofia SWE

That girl is fast! she hit that cross-side single repeatedly and was extremely effective with it. A great performance!

btw sainthamish, that is an international competetior, continue scratching your balls as that's all your good for you ungentlemanly coward/******.