Oddvar Barlie (24 June 1929 – 10 January 2017)
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was a Norwegian
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sport wrestler
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. He was born in Oslo
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and represented the club ''Oslo Bryteklubb''. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics
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in Rome
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, where he placed tied tenth in Greco-Roman wrestling
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, the middleweight class. He was a brother of wrestler Harald Barlie.
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1929 births
2017 deaths
Sportspeople from Oslo
Olympic wrestlers of Norway
Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Norwegian male sport wrestlers
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