Edvin Vesterby
{{Short description|Swedish wrestler (born 1927)}}
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| birth_date = {{birth-date and age|23 October 1927}}
| birth_place = Riguldi, Estonia
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| height = 163 cm
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| sport = Greco-Roman wrestling
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| club = Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm
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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalSilver| 1956 Melbourne |Bantamweight}}
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Edvin Vesterby (born 23 October 1927) is a retired Swedish bantamweight wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics 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.
Vesterby represented Djurgårdens IF.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/60137 |title=Edvin Vesterby |work=Olympedia |access-date=25 March 2023}}
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Category:People from Lääne-Nigula Parish
Category:Olympic wrestlers for Sweden
Category:Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
Category:Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Category:Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics
Category:Swedish male sport wrestlers
Category:Olympic silver medalists for Sweden
Category:Olympic medalists in wrestling
Category:Estonian emigrants to Sweden
Category:Estonian people of Swedish descent
Category:Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics
Category:20th-century Swedish sportsmen
Category:Djurgårdens IF wrestlers
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