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Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Continental English) [2] is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1904 . [ 3 ]
The Greco-Roman World Championships was first held in 1904. The World Championships takes place during non Olympic years. The World Championships takes place during non Olympic years. At the World Championships team scoring is kept, while no official team statistics are kept for the Olympics.
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling. Mijaín López is the only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event. [1]
Rulon Gardner on his opponent. In the 1988 Olympic final Karelin beat Rangel Gerovski, by executing his signature Karelin Lift and won. With his win, Karelin became the youngest Greco-Roman wrestler to become an Olympic champion at super heavyweight (130 kg) at the age of 21 years and two days. At the 1992 Summer Olympic Games in Barcelona, Karelin won one of the fastest Olympic wrestling ...
United States results in Greco-Roman wrestling. The United States first took part in Greco-Roman wrestling competition at the Olympics in 1912. The United States first appearance at the World Championships in Greco-Roman was in 1961. Greco-Roman wrestling was held at the first modern Olympics in 1896 and the first World Championships in Greco ...
87 kg. World U23 Championships. 2018 Bucharest. 87 kg. 2019 Budapest. 87 kg. Semen Sergeevich Novikov (Ukrainian: Семен Сергійович Новіков; born 11 December 1997 in Kharkiv) is a Ukrainian [1] and Bulgarian Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman 87 kg in the 2024 Summer Olympic Games. [2]
Wrestling at the Summer Olympics. Wrestling at the Olympic Games first appeared at the first modern Olympics, in the form of Greco-Roman wrestling, held in Athens in 1896. Wrestling would appear at every Summer Olympics held since then, with the exception of the 1900 Summer Olympics when wrestling did not appear on the program.
Artur Aleksanyan. Artur Aleksanyan (Armenian: Արթուր Ալեքսանյան, born 21 October 1991) is an Armenian Greco-Roman wrestler. He is an Olympic Champion (2016) as well as silver medalist (2021, 2024) and bronze medalist (2012), a four-time World Champion (2014, 2015, 2017, 2022), and a seven-time European Champion (2012, 2013, 2014 ...