Viking palm

Viking Palm Medal Mirror
Wrestler
Sweden
Olympic games
gold	1952 Helsinki	Semi-difficult
World Championship
silver	1951 Helsinki	Semi-difficult
bronze	1954 Tokyo	Semi-difficult
European Championship
silver	1949 Istanbul	Semi-difficult

Viking Palm (born October 23, 1923 in Östra Broby , Skane , † January 15, 2009 ) was a Swedish wrestler .

Career

Viking Palm grew up in Broby, Sweden . He started wrestling at the age of 17 and started for "Östra" Broby. He later moved to Brottning Klub (BK) Eslöv . Viking was a late starter because it wasn't until he was 25 that he had grown into the top Swedish ranks. In 1949 he became the first Swedish champion in freestyle wrestling, the style he preferred. In the same year he was also accepted into the Swedish national team of wrestlers. The trainers Robert Oksa and Rudolf Svedberg then led him relatively quickly into the world's elite. At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , he beat the entire assembled world elite in the light heavyweight division and became Olympic champion . The difficulties that Palm had with Turkish wrestlers run like a thread through his career. Adil Candemir , Yaşar Doğu , Adil Atan and Ismet Atli defeated him at important international championships at that time. Only in 1952 did he win against Adil Atan.

Viking Palm was a firefighter, but worked after his time as an active wrestler but also as a trainer and was u. a. active in New Zealand and Iran .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = freestyle, GR = Greco-Roman style, Hs = light heavyweight, S = heavyweight, then up to or over 87 kg body weight)

• 1949, 2nd place , EM in Istanbul , F, Hs, with a victory over Nasir Javid , Iran and a defeat against Adil Candemir , Turkey ;
• 1951, 2nd place , World Cup in Helsinki , F, Hs, with victories over Abbas Zandi , Iran and Max Leichter , Germany and one defeat against Yaşar Doğu , Turkey;
• 1952, gold medal , OS in Helsinki, F, Hs, with victories over Rodolfo Padron , Venezuela , Kevin Coote , Australia , Abbas Zandi, Henry Wittenberg , USA , August Englas , USSR and Adil Atan , Turkey;
• 1954, 3rd place , World Championship in Tokyo , F, Hs, with victories over Gholam Reza Takhti , Iran, Dale Thomas, USA, N. Ito, Japan and defeats against Adil Atan and August Englas;
• 1956, 7th place , OS in Melbourne , F, Hs, with victory over Peter Blair , USA and defeat against Adil Atan and Boris Kulajew , USSR;
• 1960, 4th place , OS in Rome , F, Hs, with victories over György Gurics , Hungary , Dieter Rauchbach , GDR , Sajan Singh, India , Antonio Marcucci, Italy , one draw against Anatoli Albul, USSR and one defeat against Ismet Atli , Turkey

Most important international battles

• 1953, Sweden - Turkey, F, Hs, shoulder winner over Haydar Zafer , Turkey,
• 1954, Sweden - USSR, F, Hs, points winner over Boris Kulayev,
• 1954, Sweden - USSR, F, Hs, point defeat against Otto Kandelaki,
• 1954, Sweden - Finland, GR, Hs, point defeat against Kelpo Grondahl ,
• 1954, Sweden - Finland, victory over Wacklin,
• 1955, USSR - Sweden, F, Hs, point defeat against Arkadi Tkachev,
• 1955, USSR - Sweden, F, Hs, victory over Vanin,
• 1955, Sweden - Turkey, F, S, point defeat against Hamit Kaplan

Swedish championships

Viking Palm was a total of ten times Swedish light heavyweight champion, nine times in free style and once in Greco-Roman. Style.

Web links

• Viking Palm in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )