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3 unusual facts about Roman Wrestling


Asit Kumar Saha

Asit was a State Champion from (1965-1973) in both Freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling.

Flint Sit-Down Strike

Other notable participants in the sit-down strike were future D-Day hero and Greco-Roman wrestling champion Dean Rockwell, labor leader and future UAW president Walter Reuther, and the uncle of documentary filmmaker Michael Moore, whose debut feature Roger & Me contains a clip from the strike.

Sheik Ali

Wadi Ayoub (1927 -September 29, 1976) was a champion Greco–Roman style professional wrestler, best known as Sheik Ali.


Andrés Ayub

Andrés Antonio Ayub Valenzuela (born January 1, 1982 in Santiago) is an amateur Chilean Greco-Roman wrestler, who competes in the men's super heavyweight category.

Attila Bátky

Attila Bátky (born January 23, 1973 in Dunajská Streda, Trnava) is an amateur Slovak Greco-Roman wrestler, who played for the men's light heavyweight category.

Chester Roman Amphitheatre

It is a peculiarly English myth that the amphitheatre would have been primarily for military training and drill; all the evidence recovered from excavation shows that it was used for cock fighting, bull baiting and combat sports, including classical boxing, wrestling and, probably most importantly, gladiatorial combat.

Club El Porvenir

The club was established on 12 September 1915 in Villa Porvenir, Avellaneda Partido, primarily as a Greco-Roman wrestling club.

Givi Kartozia

He won an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1956 and a bronze medal in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union.

Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight

The Greco-Roman light heavyweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman lightweight

The Greco-Roman lightweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman middleweight

The Greco-Roman middleweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman super heavyweight

The Greco-Roman super heavyweight was one of four Greco-Roman wrestling weight classes contested on the Wrestling at the 1908 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight

The men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight was a Greco-Roman wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1920 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight

The men's Greco-Roman light heavyweight was a Greco-Roman wrestling event held as part of the Wrestling at the 1924 Summer Olympics programme.

Wrestling at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg

The Men's Greco-Roman 130 kg at the 1988 Summer Olympics as part of the wrestling program were held at the Sangmu Gymnasium, Seongnam from September 20 to September 22.


see also

2008 Summer Olympics medal table

Exception was men's 84 kg Greco-Roman wrestling, where Ara Abrahamian was stripped his medal due to his conduct during the medal ceremony.

Belfast, New York

William Muldoon, Greco-Roman Wrestling Champion, physical culturist and the first chairman of the New York State Athletic Commission

Kazım Ayvaz

Greco-Roman wrestling, ahead of silver medalist Grigory Gamarnik of the USSR and bronze medalist Valeriu Bularca of Romania.

Martinescu

Nicolae Martinescu, Heavyweight Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling (1972)

Neosho, Wisconsin

Dennis Hall, 10 time Greco-Roman Wrestling US National Champion, lived in Neosho.

Siberian Federal University

Nazyr Mankiev, Honoured Master of Sports, Beijing Olympic Champion, winner of Greco-Roman wrestling world cup;

Varteres Samurgashev

Varteres has an older brother, Rafael Samurgashev (born 1963), who was a member of the Armenian national Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 2000 Summer Olympics and is now the vice president of the Russian Wrestling Federation.

Verner Weckman

Inspired by circus wrestlers Weckman started to practice Greco-Roman wrestling and won his first Finnish championship in 1904 against Verner Järvinen.