Gennady Vladimirovich Korban (russian: Геннадий Владимирович Корбан; born 9 February 1949) is a retired middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia. Between 1979 and 1981 he won two world titles, two European titles, two Soviet titles, and an Olympic gold medal.
Korban took up wrestling in 1962 and won a gold medal at the
1973 Summer Universiade
The 1973 Summer Universiade, also known as the VII Summer Universiade, took place in Moscow, Soviet Union.
Sports and venues at the 1973 Summer Universiade
* (Central Lenin Stadium)
* ( Sport Palace of the Central Lenin Stadium)
* (Tchaika Po ...
. He retired in the early 1980s to work as a wrestling coach, first in Russia and then in Germany, where he immigrated after the
dissolution of the Soviet Union
The dissolution of the Soviet Union, also negatively connoted as rus, Разва́л Сове́тского Сою́за, r=Razvál Sovétskogo Soyúza, ''Ruining of the Soviet Union''. was the process of internal disintegration within the Sov ...
. Since 2007, an annual wrestling tournament in his honor has been held in his birth town of