Edvin Vesterby
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Born | 23 October 1927 Riguldi, Estonia | (age 94)||||||||||
Height | 163 cm (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||
Club | Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm | ||||||||||
Medal record
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Edvin Vesterby (born 23 October 1927) is a retired Swedish bantamweight wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and won a Greco-Roman silver medal in 1956. He finished fourth in the freestyle in 1952 and in the Greco-Roman wrestling in 1960.[1] He was born in Riguldi Parish (now Noarootsi Parish), Lääne County, Estonia into a Swedish-speaking family. In 1943 he emigrated to Sweden and started wrestling in 1947 in Stockholm.[2]
References[]
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- ^ Edvin Vesterby Archived 1 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Edvin Vesterby. Swedish Olympic Committee
External links[]
- Edvin Vesterby at United World Wrestling
- Edvin Vesterby at Olympedia
Categories:
- 1927 births
- Living people
- People from Lääne-Nigula Parish
- Olympic wrestlers of Sweden
- Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Swedish male sport wrestlers
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Estonian emigrants to Sweden
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs
- Swedish sport wrestler stubs