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Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (russian: Григорий Александрович Гамарник; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first
Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (russian: Григорий Александрович Гамарник; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first Greco-Roman
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wrestling world champion from Ukraine.
Biography
Gamarnik was Jewish, and was born in Zinovievsk (today's Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. He was trained by USSR wrestling trainers German Sandler andArmenak Yaltyryan
Armenak "Aram" Yaltyryan (russian: Ялтырян, uk, Ялтирян, 13 May 1914 – 18 December 1999) was a Soviet lightweight wrestler. He won a silver medal at the 1947 European Championships and placed fourth at the 1952 Summer Olympics.
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Wrestling career
In 1948, he won second place in light middleweight class wrestling, at the All-Union Youth Contests in the USSR. Gamarnik was world lightweight (67 kg)Greco-Roman wrestling
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champion at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe
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, Germany, beating out silver medalist Kyösti Lehtonen of Finland and bronze medalist Gustav Freij
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of Sweden. He came in second in the 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest
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, Hungary, in welterweight (73 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling, behind gold medalist Kazim Ayvaz of Turkey and ahead of bronze medalist Valeriu Bularca of Romania.
He came in fifth in the 1960 Summer Olympics
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in Rome, Italy, in men's welterweight Greco-Roman wrestling. Gamarnik was also a USSR wrestling champion in 1953, and in 1956–58.
Retirement
After retiring from competitions, Gamarnik was the Ukrainian National Coach from 1970 to 1991. He also served as a President of Greco-Roman Federation, was a FILA International referee since 1979, officiated at the Moscow Olympic Games (1980), and was one of the organizers of the FILA World Cup in 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine. For his many years of commitment, Grigory Gamarnik was awarded the FILA Gold Star (1983) by then president Milan Ercegan. Grigory Gamarnik was inducted into theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame ( he, יד לאיש הספורט היהודי, translit=Yad Le'ish HaSport HaYehudi) was opened July 7, 1981 in Netanya, Israel. It honors Jewish athletes and their accomplishments from anywhere around ...
in 2020.
See also
* List of select Jewish wrestlersReferences
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gamarnik, Grigory 1929 births 2018 deaths Olympic wrestlers of the Soviet Union Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Soviet male sport wrestlers Ukrainian male sport wrestlers Jewish wrestlers Soviet Jews Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople Sportspeople from Kropyvnytskyi World Wrestling Championships medalists National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport alumni