Edvin Vesterby

Edvin Vesterby (2011)

Edvin Vesterby (born October 23, 1927 in Riguldi , Noarootsi , Estonia ) is a former Swedish wrestler of Estonian descent. He was a silver medalist at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne .

Career

Edvin Vesterby grew up in Stockholm as the son of parents from Estonia . There he began as a teenager in 1946 with Djurgårdens IF with the wrestling. He was very talented and had fought his way into the top Swedish wrestling class in both styles by the early 1950s. In 1951 he became the first Swedish master in the free style and in 1955 in the Greco-Roman style. His international career began in 1951 at the World Free Style Championships in Helsinki . There he lost in bantamweight after two points wins in the third round against the Iranian Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi and had to be satisfied with the ungrateful fourth place.

He took the same place at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . Here, too, he competed in free style in bantamweight, won three fights and lost to the Turkish Cemil Sarıbacak and the all surprising Japanese Shohachi Ishii , who became Olympic champion .

Vesterby also landed 4th at the 1955 World Cup in Karlsruhe , this time in the Greco-Roman style. After three wins, he was thrown out of the race by the eventual world champion Vladimir Stashkevich from the Soviet Union.

Vesterby finally won the well-deserved medal at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne in Greco-Roman style. After three wins he lost against Dinko Petrow from Bulgaria and Konstantin Wyrupajew from the Soviet Union, but Petrow was eliminated early, so that Vesterby won the silver medal behind Vyrupayev.

At the 1955 World Championships in Budapest Vesterby achieved a good 5th place, and at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in the Greco-Roman style in bantamweight, he again came 4th. Finally, Edvin Vesterby competed in both styles again in 1962 in Toledo / USA and came in 6th place in free style and 14th place in the Greco-Roman style after two defeats in the first two rounds.

Then he finished his international wrestling race. Edvin Vesterby, an electrician by profession, then made himself available to his parent club as a trainer in the youth field for many years.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = freestyle, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1951, 4th place , World Championships in Helsinki , F, Ba, with victories over Joseph Trimpont, Belgium and Ferdinando Carrano, Italy and one defeat against Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi , Iran ;
• 1952, 4th place , OS in Helsinki, F, Ba, with victories over Kenneth Irvine, Great Britain , Omar Blebel, Argentina and Charles Kouyos, France and defeats against Cemil Sarıbacak , Turkey and Shohachi Ishii , Japan ;
• 1955, 4th place , World Championship in Karlsruhe , GR, Ba, with victories over Dinko Petrow , Bulgaria , Maurice Faure, France and Karl Ditter , FRG and a defeat against Vladimir Stashkewitsch , Soviet Union ;
• 1956, silver medal , OS in Melbourne , GR, Ba, with victories over Francisc Horvath , Romania , Yasar Yilmaz , Turkey and Franz Brunner , Austria and defeats against Dinko Petrow, Bulgaria and Konstantin Wyrupajew , USSR;
• 1958, 5th place , World Championship in Budapest , GR, Ba, with victories over Tauno Jaskari , Finland and Michel Theodoropoulos, Greece , a draw against Bernard Knitter , Poland and a defeat against Jiří Švec , Czechoslovakia ;
• 1959, 2nd place , tournament in Greiz , GR, Ba, behind Klaus Scherer , FRG and ahead of Müller, GDR ;
• 1960, 4th place , OS in Rome , GR, Ba, with victories over Stipe Dora, Yugoslavia , Franz Brunner and Orlando Goncalves, Portugal , a draw against Jiří Švec and a defeat against Dinko Petrow;
• 1962, 1st place , “Pytalinski” memorial in Warsaw, GR, Ba, before Bernard Knitter
• 1962, 6th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA , F, Ba, with victories over Bernard Knitter, Pieter Roux, South Africa and Harry Pylkänen, Canada and one defeat against János Varga , Hungary ;
• 1962, 14th place , World Cup in Toledo / USA, GR, Ba, after defeats against Hassan Rajabi, Iran and Masamitsu Ichiguchi , Japan

Most important international battles

• 1953, Sweden against Turkey, F, Ba, point defeat against Mustafa Dağıstanlı ,
• 1954, Sweden against USSR, F, Ba, shoulder defeat against Majssuradze,
• 1954, Sweden against USSR, F, Ba, point victory over W. Gigijadze,
• 1954, Sweden against Finland, GR, Ba, points victory over Leo Honkala ,
• 1954, Sweden against Finland, point defeat against Rantala,
• 1955, USSR against Sweden, GR, Ba, point defeat against Swiridow,
• 1955, USSR against Sweden, GR, Ba, point defeat against Lenc,
• 1955, Turkey against Sweden, GR, Ba, victory over Hüseyin Akbaş ,
• 1955, Turkey against Sweden, GR, Ba, point defeat against Yasar Yilmaz,
• 1955, Sweden against Turkey, F, Ba, point defeat against Hüseyin Akbaş,
• 1956, Sweden against USSR, GR, Ba, point victory over Boris Gurewitsch ,
• 1959, FRG against Sweden, GR, Ba, draw against Klaus Scherer,
• 1960, Finland against Sweden, GR, Ba, draw against Tauno Jaskari,
• 1960, Finland against Sweden, GR, Ba, draw against Luhtala,
• 1960, Sweden against Finland, GR, Ba, point defeat against Nykänen,
• 1960, Sweden against Finland, GR, Ba, point defeat against Luhtala,
• 1962, Romania against Sweden, GR, Ba, draw against Dumitru Pârvulescu ,
• 1962, Romania versus Sweden, GR, Ba, draw with Cristea

Swedish championships

Edvin Vesterby was a total of ten times Swedish champion (six times in the free style and four times in the Greco-Roman style) in bantamweight.

swell

• Various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1951 to 1963
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

• Profile of Edvin Vesterby at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Edvin Vesterby in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sports achievements and photo (Estonian)