Olle Anderberg
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Örgryte IS, Göteborg
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| Born | 13 September 1919 Asmundtorp, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 26 September 2003 (aged 84) Linköping, Sweden | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Eskilstuna GAK, Eskilstuna Örgryte IS, Göteborg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olle Henrik Martin Anderberg (13 September 1919 – 26 September 2003) was a Swedish wrestler. He competed in the 1948, 1952 and 1956 Summer Olympics in freestyle and Greco-Roman events and won a silver medal in the Greco-Roman featherweight in 1948 and a gold in the freestyle lightweight in 1952. Between 1942 and 1962 Anderberg won three world, two European and 27 national titles.[1][2]
Anderberg's father Frans and brother Gunnar played football in the Swedish premier division. Olle tried football too, but had a much better career in wrestling, both as a competitor and a coach. He worked with the national teams of Finland, Turkey and Iran (1957–1960), and was personally known to Mohammad Reza Pahlavi.[2]
