Carl Westergren

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
(Redirected from Calle Westergren)
Jump to: navigation, search
Carl Westergren
Personal information
Born (1895-10-13)13 October 1895
Malmö, Sweden
Died Error: Need valid death date (first date): year, month, day
Malmö, Sweden

Carl "Calle" Oscar Westergren (13 October 1895 – 5 August 1958) was a Swedish wrestler who competed in the 1920, 1924, 1928, and 1932 Summer Olympics.[1]

Born in Malmö, he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman middleweight competition in 1920. Four years later he won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman light heavyweight competition. He also competed in the freestyle light heavyweight event and finished fourth. In 1928 he was eliminated after the first round in the Greco-Roman light heavyweight competition.

In his last Olympics competition, Westergren won the gold medal in the Greco-Roman heavyweight competition again, ahead of Czech Josef Urban and Austrian Nikolaus Hirschl.[2] He died in Malmö.

References

<templatestyles src="Reflist/styles.css" />

Cite error: Invalid <references> tag; parameter "group" is allowed only.

Use <references />, or <references group="..." />

External links

<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

<templatestyles src="Asbox/styles.css"></templatestyles>

  1. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  2. http://www.databaseolympics.com/games/gamessport.htm?g=10&sp=WRE