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Carl Gunnar Emanuel Setterwall (18 August 1881 – 26 February 1928) was a Swedish
tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between two teams of two players each (doubles (tennis), doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket st ...
player who won four Olympic medals. In 1908, he won a bronze in the men's indoor doubles, with Wollmar Boström. Four years later, he won three more medals. In the mixed doubles (with
Sigrid Fick Sigrid Fick (née ''Frenckell''; 28 March 1887 – 4 June 1979) was a Finnish-born tennis Tennis is a List of racket sports, racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent (singles (tennis), singles) or between t ...
) and indoor doubles (with
Carl Kempe Johan Carl Kempe (8 December 1884 – 8 July 1967) was the leader of the Swedish pulp and paper industry Mo och Domsjö AB (now Holmen Group) and was involved in several other companies in the large economic sphere of the Kempe family. He was a ...
) tournaments, he reached the final but lost both times. Sigrid Fick was also his partner in the mixed indoor event, and they won a bronze medal together. Setterwall's father, also named Carl, was a multimillionaire controlling much of the iron works during the development of railways in Scandinavia. His son followed in his footsteps, eventually taking over the family firm.


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* * * 1881 births 1928 deaths Swedish male tennis players Olympic tennis players for Sweden Tennis players at the 1908 Summer Olympics Tennis players at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for Sweden Olympic bronze medalists for Sweden Tennis players from Stockholm Olympic medalists for Sweden in tennis Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics {{Sweden-Olympic-medalist-stub