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Bertil Antonsson

1921 - 2006

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Hans Bertil August Antonsson (19 July 1921 – 27 November 2006) was a Swedish heavyweight wrestler. He competed at the 1948, 1952 and 1960 Summer Olympics in freestyle wrestling and won silver medals in 1948 and 1952. In 1956 he entered the Greco-Roman contest instead and finished fifth. Antonsson took up wrestling at age 14, began competing aged 17, and retired at 47. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bertil Antonsson is the 177th most popular wrestler (down from 66th in 2019), the 787th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 637th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Swedish Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Bertil Antonsson ranks 177 out of 1,027Before him are Kaarlo Koskelo, Tazz, Dietmar Lorenz, Sasha Banks, Tyrus, and Axel Cadier. After him are Frithiof Mårtensson, Georg Gehring, Ödön Zombori, Nikolai Volkoff, Mahmut Atalay, and Pedro Morales.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Bertil Antonsson ranks 323Before him are Heinrich Schmid, Jean Richard, Tafari Benti, Joseph Iléo, Ruth Orkin, and Al Pease. After him are Fernando Roldán, Isabella Bashmakova, Karl Aage Hansen, Dennis Brain, Alan Freed, and Francis Blanche. Among people deceased in 2006, Bertil Antonsson ranks 260Before him are Konstantin Beskov, Dana Reeve, Kalervo Toivonen, Lyuben Berov, Milan Damjanović, and Don Knotts. After him are Eugène Martin, S. Yizhar, Valentin Muratov, Alvin M. Weinberg, Peter Osgood, and Oskar Pastior.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Bertil Antonsson ranks 787 out of 1,879Before him are Uschi Digard (1948), Gustaf Weidel (1890), Jens Johansson (1963), Lennart Samuelsson (1924), Axel Cadier (1906), and Peter Tägtgren (1970). After him are Stellan Nilsson (1922), Frithiof Mårtensson (1884), Göran Therborn (1941), Dagmar Lange (1914), Greta Johansson (1895), and Ann-Britt Leyman (1922).

Among WRESTLERS In Sweden

Among wrestlers born in Sweden, Bertil Antonsson ranks 11Before him are Kurt Pettersén (1916), Axel Grönberg (1918), Carl Westergren (1895), Anders Larsson (1892), Erik Malmberg (1897), and Axel Cadier (1906). After him are Frithiof Mårtensson (1884), Claes Johanson (1884), Knut Fridell (1908), Gustav Freij (1922), Pelle Svensson (1943), and Lars-Erik Skiöld (1952).