Viking Palm
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Born | 13 October 1923 Broby, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 19 January 2009 (aged 85) Täby, Stockholm, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Freestyle wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | GAK Enighet, Malmö Eslövs AIF BK Viking, Broby | |||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bror Viking Palm (13 October 1923 – 19 January 2009[1]) was a Swedish light-heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1952, finishing fourth in 1960. In 1960 his bronze medal match against Anatoly Albul ended in a draw, but Albul had a lower body weight.[2] Palm won two medals at the world championships, in 1951 and 1954.[3]
Palm was born to a farmer and started training in wrestling aged 16, together with his elder brother Evert. He had a long wrestling career and reached the final of his last national championships aged 47. He was a firefighter by profession, but in 1972 began working as a policeman in Solna.[4]
References
![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ae/Viking_Palm_with_family_1952.jpg/300px-Viking_Palm_with_family_1952.jpg)
Palm with family in Malmö in 1952
Media related to Viking Palm at Wikimedia Commons
- ^ "Viking Palm har avlidit" [Viking Palm has died]. Västerviks-Tidningen (in Swedish). 19 January 2009.
- ^ Wrestling at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle. sports-reference.com
- ^ Viking Palm. sports-reference.com
- ^ Viking Palm. Swedish Olympic Committee
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