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Per Berlin

1921 - 2011

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Per Gunnar Börje Berlin (1 August 1921 – 22 December 2011) was a Swedish wrestler who competed in the 73 kg freestyle and Greco-Roman categories. He won a freestyle silver medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics and a Greco-Roman bronze in 1956. He received another bronze medal at the 1949 European Championships, and three times finished fourth in freestyle wrestling: at the 1951 and 1954 world championships and at the 1956 Olympics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Per Berlin is the 1,235th most popular athlete (down from 794th in 2019), the 900th most popular biography from Sweden (down from 829th in 2019) and the 65th most popular Swedish Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Per Berlin ranks 1,235 out of 6,025. Before him are Jadwiga Wajs, Duvall Hecht, Romano Sgheiz, Joseph Perotaux, Commodore Cochran, and Heinrich Peters. After him are Yoshihisa Yoshikawa, Noureddine Morceli, Vasile Tiță, Edward Moore, Charles Kieffer, and Eirik Kvalfoss.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1921, Per Berlin ranks 358. Before him are Diana Barrymore, Egon Jönsson, Ingvar Gärd, Ilse Werner, Lloyd Bentsen, and Jimmy Giuffre. After him are Tommy Noonan, James Cooke Brown, Paul Barth, Ettore Chimeri, Denys de La Patellière, and Cyrille Adoula. Among people deceased in 2011, Per Berlin ranks 349. Before him are Bhimsen Joshi, Milton Babbitt, Kjell Johansson, Ragnar Lundberg, Kiyonori Kikutake, and Yrjö Hietanen. After him are Aloysius Ambrozic, Krishna Prasad Bhattarai, Henry Cooper, Jan van Beveren, Ingrid Sandahl, and Hubert Sumlin.

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In Sweden

Among people born in Sweden, Per Berlin ranks 900 out of 1,879. Before him are Lennart Klingström (1916), Ingvar Gärd (1921), Ferdinand Boberg (1860), Ola Rapace (1971), Gunnar Larsson (1951), and Anders Tegnell (1956). After him are Nils Täpp (1917), Gunnar Setterwall (1881), Per Olof Sundman (1922), Kim Källström (1982), Tor Johnson (1902), and Robin Söderling (1984).

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Among ATHLETES In Sweden

Among athletes born in Sweden, Per Berlin ranks 65. Before him are Gunder Hägg (1918), Carl Silfverstrand (1885), Ragnar Lundberg (1924), Britt Strandberg (1934), Patrik Sjöberg (1965), and Lennart Klingström (1916). After him are Nils Täpp (1917), Carl von Essen (1940), Hans Berglund (1918), Tore Eriksson (1937), Harald Julin (1890), and Inga Gentzel (1908).

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