Matti Tapio Poikala (born 26 July 1935) is a retired Swedish wrestler.

He competed in the freestyle lightweight division at the 1964 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated in the second bout.

He then won a silver medal at the 1968 European and a bronze at the 1969 world championships in Greco-Roman wrestling, and finished fourth in 1969 in the 74 kg freestyle contest.

[1] Poikala was born in Finland and immigrated to Sweden in 1959.

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