Viking Palm
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| Born | 13 October 1923 Broby, Sweden |
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| Died | 19 January 2009 (aged 85) Täby, Stockholm, Sweden |
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| Height | 181 cm (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Freestyle wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | GAK Enighet, Malmö Eslövs AIF BK Viking, Broby |
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Bror Viking Palm (13 October 1923 – 19 January 2009) was a Swedish 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 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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