Viking Palm

Viking Palm

Personal information
Born	13 October 1923 Broby, Sweden
Died	19 January 2009 (aged 85) Täby, Stockholm, Sweden
Height	181 cm (5 ft 11 in)
Sport
Sport	Freestyle wrestling
Club	GAK Enighet, Malmö Eslövs AIF BK Viking, Broby
Medal record Competitor for  Sweden Olympic Games 1952 Helsinki Light heavyweight World Championships 1951 Helsinki -87 kg 1954 Tokyo -87 kg European Championships 1949 Istanbul -87 kg

Bror Viking Palm (13 October 1923 – 19 January 2009^[1]) 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.^[2] Palm won two medals at the world championships, in 1951 and 1954.^[3]

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.^[4]

References

1. "Viking Palm har avlidit" [Viking Palm has died]. Västerviks-Tidningen (in Swedish). 19 January 2009.
2. Wrestling at the 1960 Roma Summer Games: Men's Light-Heavyweight, Freestyle. sports-reference.com
3. Viking Palm. sports-reference.com
4. Viking Palm. Swedish Olympic Committee