Bror Viking Palm (13 October 1923 – 19 January 2009) was a

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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 Anatoly Mikhaylovich Albul (russian: Анатолий Михайлович Албул ; 1 June 1936 – 13 August 2013) was a Russian wrestler. He was born in Leningrad. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960, competing for ...

ended in a draw, but Albul had a lower body weight. Palm won two medals at the world championships, in 1951 and 1954. 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.

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* 1923 births 2009 deaths People from Östra Göinge Municipality Olympic wrestlers for Sweden Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Swedish male sport wrestlers Olympic gold medalists for Sweden Olympic medalists in wrestling World Wrestling Championships medalists Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Skåne County {{Sweden-wrestling-bio-stub