Väli competed at the 1924 Olympics, but lost in the early rounds. Väli won his first international honors at the 1926 European Championships, where he captured gold in Greco-Roman featherweight, a ...

Kalle Westerlund came from a sporting family, as his brothers Edvard and Emil were also internationally known wrestlers, Edvard winning Olympic Greco-Roman middleweight gold in 1924 and Emil competing ...