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List Of Amateur Wrestlers
Listed are notable wrestlers who were competitors in either freestyle, Greco-Roman, or collegiate wrestling styles. These wrestlers are not to be confused with professional wrestling, and famous for their amateur wrestling success. Armenia * Alfred Ter-Mkrtychyan – 1992 Olympic silver medalist (for Unified Team) *Ara Abrahamian – 2004 Olympic silver medalist (for Sweden) * Artem Teryan – 1952 Olympic bronze medalist (for Soviet Union) *Artur Aleksanyan – 2012 Olympic bronze medalist, 2014 and 2015 World champion *Arsen Julfalakyan – 2012 Olympic silver medalist *Armen Mkrtchyan – 1996 Olympic silver medalist *Armen Nazaryan – 1996 Olympic gold medalist, 2000 Olympic gold medalist (for Bulgaria), 2004 Olympic bronze medalist (for Bulgaria) * Levon Julfalakyan – 1988 Olympic gold medalist (for Soviet Union) * Mkkhitar Manukyan – 2004 Olympic bronze medalist (for Kazakhstan) *Roman Amoyan – 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, 2006 and 2011 European champion Azerbaijan ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wrestling
Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat sports and military systems. The sport can either be genuinely competitive or sportive entertainment (see professional wrestling). Wrestling comes in different forms such as freestyle, Greco-Roman, judo, sambo, folkstyle, catch, submission, sumo, pehlwani, shuai jiao and others. A wrestling bout is a physical competition, between two (sometimes more) competitors or sparring partners, who attempt to gain and maintain a superior position. There are a wide range of styles with varying rules, with both traditional historic and modern styles. The term ''wrestling'' is attested in late Old English, as ''wræstlunge'' (glossing ''palestram''). History Wrestling represents one of the oldest forms of combat. The origins of wrestl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Emin Ahmadov
Emin Ahmadov (born 6 October 1986, Baku) is an Azerbaijani wrestler Wrestling is a series of combat sports involving grappling-type techniques such as clinch fighting, throws and takedowns, joint locks, pins and other grappling holds. Wrestling techniques have been incorporated into martial arts, combat spor .... He won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Greco-Roman men's 74 kg event. Along the way he beat Neven Zugaj and Zurab Datunashvili, before losing to Arsen Julfalakyan in the semi-final. Because Julfalakyan reached the final, Ahmadov was a participant in the bronze medal repechage, where he beat Aliaksandr Kikiniou in his bronze medal match. References External links * 1986 births Living people Olympic wrestlers of Azerbaijan Wrestlers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Azerbaijan Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Azerbaijani male sport wrestlers Sportspeopl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joseph Mewis
Joseph Mewis (born 23 March 1931) is a Belgian wrestler. He was Olympic silver medalist in Freestyle wrestling Freestyle wrestling is a style of wrestling originated from Great Britain and the United States. Along with Greco-Roman, it is one of the two styles of wrestling contested in the Olympic Games. American high school and men's college wrestli ... in 1956. He also competed at the 1952, 1960 and 1964 Olympics. References External links * 1931 births Living people Olympic wrestlers for Belgium Wrestlers at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1956 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics Belgian male sport wrestlers Olympic silver medalists for Belgium Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1956 Summer Olympics 20th-century Belgian people {{Belgium-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Valeriy Tsilent
Valeriy Tsilent (born September 29, 1969) is a Belarusian wrestler. At the 1996 Summer Olympics The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ... he won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman Middleweight (74–82 kg) category. References Sports Reference 1969 births Living people Wrestlers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Belarusian male sport wrestlers Olympic wrestlers for Belarus Olympic bronze medalists for Belarus Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Belarusian people 21st-century Belarusian people {{Belarus-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viachaslau Makaranka
Viachaslau Makaranka (born September 19, 1975) is a wrestler from Belarus who competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ... and the 2004 Summer Olympics, winning a bronze medal at the latter. References External links * 1975 births Living people Olympic wrestlers of Belarus Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Wrestlers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Belarus Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Belarusian male sport wrestlers 20th-century Belarusian people 21st-century Belarusian people {{Belarus-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Debelka
Dmitry Vladimirovich Debelka ( be, Дзмітрый (Зьміцер) Уладзіміравіч Дзябёлка; 7 January 1976 – February 2022) was a Belarusian wrestler who competed in the Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg at the 2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 ( Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from ... and won the bronze medal. Debelka died in February 2022, at the age of 46. References External links *Sports Reference 1976 births 2022 deaths Sportspeople from Minsk Olympic wrestlers of Belarus Wrestlers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Belarusian male sport wrestlers Olympic bronze medalists for Belarus Olympic medalists in wrestling Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics 21st-century Belarusian people 20th-century Belarusian people {{Belarus-wrestling-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolaus Hirschl
Nickolaus (also "Nikolaus") "Mickey" (also "Micki") Hirschl (March 20, 1906 – October 10, 1991) was an Austrian Olympic-medal-winning wrestler. He was also a European heavyweight wrestling champion, and for 10 years held the title of Austrian heavyweight wrestling champion. He was also an Austrian shot put and discus junior champion, Austrian heavyweight weightlifting junior champion, and for seven years the Austrian pentathlon champion. Early life Hirschl was Jewish, and was born in Vienna, Austria. His parents were kosher butchers, and his father was president of a synagogue. Sports career At 15 years of age, he won the Austrian junior championship in shot put and discus. At 16 years of age, he won the Austrian junior championship in heavyweight weightlifting. At 17 years of age, he became the pentathlon champion of Austria, winning the title in 1923. He held it for seven years. At the age of 18, he won the Austrian heavyweight wrestling cham ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eddie Scarf
Edward Richard Scarf (3 November 1908 – 7 January 1980) was an Australian wrestler and boxer. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1932, and also competed at the 1936 Olympics. Early life He was born in Quirindi in New South Wales. He was the fourth child of Michael Eli Scarf and Amelia, née Zraysarty, who had both migrated from Lebanon. He attended Marist Brothers School in North Sydney. Career In February 1938, Scarf won the wrestling gold medal at the Empire Games in Sydney in the light heavyweight division. His victory came in spite of pulling a muscle in his right thigh during the preliminary rounds. In November that year he turned professional and moved up to the heavyweight class in order to compete in a competition sponsored by Stadiums Limited to determine the heavyweight professional champion of Australia. He had been training with American wrestlers, Ray Steele, Dean Detton, and Bobby Roberts. He was crowned professional champion by defeat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Garrard (wrestler)
Richard Edward Garrard, OBE (21 January 1911 – 3 March 2003) was an Australian Olympic wrestler. Garrard was born on 21 January 1911 in Geelong, Victoria. In a thirty-year career, from 1926 to 1956, Garrard lost only nine of 525 bouts, making him Australia's most successful sport wrestler ever. Between 1930 and 1956, he won every Victorian wrestling title and ten national titles in the lightweight and light welterweight divisions. This included not being beaten in a match in Australia for 25 years between 1930 and 1956. In 1934, he competed in the first of what was to be four consecutive Commonwealth Games (then called the British Empire Games, and in 1954, the British Empire and Commonwealth Games) – an achievement amplified by the twelve-year gap between games from 1938 and 1950, due to World War II. Garrard won the gold medal at the 1934, 1938 and 1950 games, and a bronze at the 1954 games (where he was flag-bearer for the Australian team at the opening cer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sharif Sharifov
Sharif Naidhajavovich Sharifov (russian: Шариф Наидгаджавович Шарифов, az, Шәриф Шәрифов, italics=no; born November 11, 1988 in Gunukh, Charodinsky District, Dagestan) is a Russian-Azerbaijani male wrestler of Avar descent. Sharifov finished first in the world championship and won bronze in the European championship. At the 2012 Summer Olympics Sharifov won a gold medal in the 84 kg event after defeating Puerto Rican Jaime Espinal. He won a bronze medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics, where he beat Bi Shengfeng and Zbigniew Baranowski before losing to Abdulrashid Sadulaev. Sharifov won the bronze medal after beating Pedro Ceballos Pedro Ceballos (born September 8, 1990) is a Venezuelan freestyle wrestler. He competed in the men's freestyle 86 kg event at the 2016 Summer Olympics, in which he lost the bronze medal match to Sharif Sharifov. He won the gold medal in hi ... in the repechage. References External links * Livin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vitaliy Rahimov
Vitaliy Medzhidovich Rahimov (russian: Вита́лий Меджи́дович Раги́мов born 27 August 1984, Meghri, Armenian SSR) is an Azerbaijani athlete. Rahimov moved with his family to Azerbaijan in 1990. He has been trained in Greco-Roman wrestling since 1994. He made the Azerbaijani Olympic teams in 2004 and 2008. In the 2004 Olympics in Athens, Rahimov beat Jim Gruenwald of the United States (7-0) but was later defeated by the Serbian Davor Stefanek. In the 2008 Beijing Olympics, Rahimov reached the final having beaten Sheng Jiang ( China), Eusebiu Diaconu (Romania), Armen Nazaryan (Bulgaria), and Nurbakyt Tengizbayev (Turkmenistan) but lost to Islambek Albiev from Russia. On 17 November 2016 the IOC The International Olympic Committee (IOC; french: link=no, Comité international olympique, ''CIO'') is a non-governmental sports organisation based in Lausanne, Switzerland. It is constituted in the form of an association under the Swiss .. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Farid Mansurov
Farid Mansurov ( az, Fərid Mansurov) (born May 10, 1982 in Dmanisi, Georgia) is an Azerbaijani wrestler, gold medalist of the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Greco-Roman wrestling at 66 kg. He retired in 2010, after conceding jaw injury during 2010 European Wrestling Championship. In 2010—2011, he coached the Azerbaijani national wrestling team. He is the head of the sport department in The Ministry of Youth and Sport of the Republic of Azerbaijan since 2016. He is also Vice President of Youth Wrestling Federation of Azerbaijan. Career In 1992, he started to train under the leadership of Alikulu Hasanoglu () in Neftchi Sport Society. He achieved his first success in 1997 when he took second place in the World Championship among juniors. In 1998, Mansurov heavily injured his wrist during the semi-final match with a Cuban athlete. Mansurov won the first place in the men's championship of Azerbaijan in 2000. A year later, He won gold medal in the World Championship held in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
