Bror Wiberg

Bror Wiberg played as a striker for HIFK in Helsinki and also captained the team. With this club he won silver at the Finnish championship in 1912. At the 1912 Olympic Games, Wiberg played in all four games of the Finnish team. They defeated Italy (in overtime) and Russia in the first two rounds but were overmatched against England in the semi-final and the Netherlands in the bronze medal match. In the tournament, he scored two goals, the winner against Italy and one against Russia. In addition, he only won one more cap, his début against Sweden prior to the Olympics, where he also scored Finland’s only goal.

After the Stockholm Olympics, Wiberg was lured to play in St. Petersburg for the clubs “Nevsky”, “Sport” and “Neva”. He received a Russian passport under the name Boris Rudolfovich Viberg. He won the city championship three times and in 1913, with the city team from St. Petersburg, also the national championship. In 1917 he returned to Finland and to Obo IFK Turku.

Bror Wiberg was the son of a Finnish father and an English mother. He was married to Ragnhild Elisabeth (née Söderholm), who remarried after his timely death. They had one daughter and two sons.