Per Berlin
Appearance
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Full name | Per Gunnar Börje Berlin | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Södra Sandby, Sweden | 1 August 1921||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 22 December 2011 Landskrona, Sweden | (aged 90)||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Eskilstuna GAK, Champigny-sur-Marne | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Per Gunnar Börje Berlin (1 August 1921 – 22 December 2011) was a Swedish wrestler who competed in the 73 kg freestyle and Greco-Roman categories. He won a freestyle silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and a Greco-Roman bronze in 1956.[1][2] He received another bronze medal at the 1949 European Championships, and three times finished fourth in freestyle wrestling: at the 1951 and 1954 world championships and at the 1956 Olympics.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ "Olympics Statistics: Per Berlin". databaseolympics.com. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ "Per Berlin Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 1 January 2012.
- ^ Per Berlin. Swedish Olympic Committee
External links
[edit]- Per Berlin at the International Wrestling Database
- Per Berlin at Olympedia
- Per Berlin at the Swedish Olympic Committee (in Swedish)
Categories:
- 1921 births
- 2011 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for Sweden
- Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Swedish male sport wrestlers
- Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
- Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Sportspeople from Skåne County
- Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Swedish sportsmen
- Swedish sport wrestler stubs
- Swedish Olympic medalist stubs