Carl Gunnar Emanuel Setterwall (18 August 1881 – 26 February 1928) was a Swedish
tennis
Tennis is a racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles). Each player uses a tennis racket that is strung with cord to strike a hollow rubber ball ...
player who won four Olympic medals. In 1908, he won a bronze in the men's indoor doubles, with
Wollmar Boström
Wollmar Filip Boström (15 June 1878 – 7 November 1956) was a Swedish diplomat and tennis player. He competed at the 1908 and 1912 Olympics in singles and men's doubles and won a bronze medal in the doubles in 1908, finishing fifth in three oth ...
. 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 racket sport that is played either individually against a single opponent ( singles) or between two teams of two players each ( doubles) ...
) and indoor doubles (with
Carl Kempe
Johan Carl Kempe (8 December 1884 – 8 July 1967) was leader of the Swedish pulp and paper industry Mo och Domsjö AB (now Holmen Group) and involved in several other companies in the large economic sphere of the Kempe family. He was also a si ...
) tournament he reached the final but lost both times. Sigrid Fick was also his partner in the mixed indoor event and together they won a bronze medal.
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 in tennis
Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1912 Summer Olympics
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