Career
Foreign the politician see Ivar Johansson (politician) At the 1932 Olympics Johansson first competed as a freestyle middleweight. Despite being a favorite, he lost his first bout to Kyösti Luukko. Two days later he was scheduled to compete as a Greco-Roman welterweight.
Later the same year he was awarded the Svenska Dagbladet.
Johansson never competed at the world championships. Johansson grew up in a rural area near Norrköping, where he built his strength by manual labor at a farm.
He then moved to Norrköping city to work as a police officer and then as a wrestling coach. The annual wrestling award "Ivars Guldsko" was established in Sweden in his honor after his death.