Jimmy Lidberg

Personal information

Born

13 April 1982 (age 34)
Farsta, Sweden

Height

1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)

Weight

105 kg (231 lb)

Sport

Wrestling

Event(s)

Greco-Roman

Club

Spårvägens BK

Coached by

Igor Bugay
Benny Ljungbeck

Medal record

Representing Sweden
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Olympic Games
	2012 London	96 kg
World Championships
	2009 Herning	96 kg
	2010 Moscow	96 kg
	2011 Istanbul	96 kg
European Championships
	2005 Varna	96 kg
	2006 Moscow	96 kg
	2007 Sofia	96 kg
	2009 Vilnius	96 kg

Jimmy Lidberg (born 13 April 1982) is a Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic bronze medalist and won several World and European Championship medals as well.

Lidberg grew up in Farsta and on Södermalm in and won several titles in wrestling. His younger brother Martin Lidberg is also a wrestler. He won his first senior Swedish Championship when he was 17 years old.

He has won three straight European Wrestling Championships medals and three straight World Wrestling Championships medals, while later winning a fourth World Championship medal. Overall, he has won eight consecutive medals from international senior championships. Lidberg was ranked at the top 3 in the world in his weight class in 2007, 2009, and 2012. He won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the men's Greco-Roman 96 kg category.

In January 2013, he announced that he was retiring from wrestling. As of April 2013 he is head coach of the Norwegian Wrestling Federation. In addition to being a physical trainer and coach, Lidberg also started two companies. He co-founded with two friends the club Huddinge Brottarklubb.

Lidberg has two children.

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