Edvin Vesterby
Olympic wrestler
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| Intro | Olympic wrestler | |
| Places | Sweden | |
| is | Wrestler Athlete Amateur wrestler | |
| Work field | Sports | |
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| Birth | 23 October 1927, Lääne County | |
| Age | 97 years |
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Edvin Vesterby (born 23 October 1927) is a retired Swedish bantamweight wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and won a Greco-Roman silver medal in 1956. He finished fourth in the freestyle in 1952 and in the Greco-Roman wrestling in 1960.
He was born in Riguldi Parish (now Noarootsi Parish), Lääne County, Estonia into a Swedish-speaking family. In 1943 he emigrated to Sweden and started wrestling in 1947 in Stockholm.