Sport Wrestling Name Olle Anderberg | Role Olympic athlete | |
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Born 13 September 1919 Asmundtorp, Sweden Club Eskilstuna GAK, Eskilstuna
Orgryte IS, Goteborg Died September 26, 2003, Linkoping, Sweden Olympic medals Wrestling at the 1952 Summer Olympics - Men's Freestyle Lightweight People also search for Jahanbakht Tofiq, Jay Thomas Evans, Mehmet Oktav, Ferenc Toth | ||
Olle Henrik Martin Anderberg (13 September 1919 – 26 September 2003) was a Swedish wrestler. He competed in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics in freestyle and Greco-Roman events and won a silver medal in the Greco-Roman featherweight in 1948 and a gold in the freestyle lightweight in 1952. Between 1942 and 1962 Anderberg won three world, two European and 27 national titles.
Anderberg's father Frans and brother Gunnar played football in the Swedish premier division. Olle tried football too, but had a much better career in wrestling, both as a competitor and a coach. He worked with the national teams of Finland, Turkey and Iran (1957–1960), and was personally known to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.
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