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* NBA champion
* NBA Finals MVP
* NBA Most Valuable Player
* 13× NBA All-Star
* 4× All-NBA First Team
* 5× All-NBA Second Team
* 3× All-NBA Third Team
* 50–40–90 club
* NBA Three-Point Shootout champion
* NBA Shooting Stars champion
* Dallas Mavericks all-time leading scorer
* FIBA World Cup MVP
* FIBA EuroBasket MVP
* 6× Euroscar Player of the Year
* 2× FIBA Europe Men's Player of the Year
* Mister Europa Player of the Year
* Silbernes Lorbeerblatt
* German Sports Personality of the Year

Nagbe

Indian

Terjola, Imereti, Georgia

Egil Uno Solsvik (12 April 1916 – 6 October 2005) was a Norwegian wrestler. He was born in Kristiania, and represented the club IF Ørnulf. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he placed sixth (shared) in his class. He won a bronze medal at the 1938 European championship. He died in California in 2005.

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Olcay at the 1948 Olympics

James O. "Jim" Coplien (also known as Cope) is a writer, lecturer, and researcher in the field of computer science. He held the 2003-2004 Vloeberghs Leerstoel (Vloeberghs Chair) at Vrije Universiteit Brussel and has been a visiting professor at University of Manchester.

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Osman Sayed (born February 28, 1930) was a Greco-Roman flyweight on the Egyptian wrestling team at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. He earned a silver medal for Egypt.

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Takeo Shimotori (born 2 October 1928) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Mirian Tsalkalamanidze (b. 20 April 1927 – d. 3 August 2000) was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

Bayram Şit (born 1930) is a former Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1952 Olympics.He was born 1930 in the village Akşar of Acıpayam district of Denizli Province, Turkey. He won the gold medal at the 1951 Mediterranean Games and the 1952 Summer Olympics and became 1954 World silver medalist in Japan. After participating the second time at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, where he reached the 4th rank, Bayram Şit resigned from the active sports.He then served as trainer of Turkey's national team. He was invited to France to train the French national team, helped many French wrestlers to win medals at the World championships.Bayram Şit is currently living in Ankara.

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Shalva Konstantinovich Chikhladze (12 July 1912 – 14 January 1997) was a Soviet light-heavyweight wrestler from Georgia. He won a silver medal in the Greco-Roman light-heavyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics.Chikhladze became interested in wrestling in 1920, and started training in a club in 1930, when he moved from Kutaisi to Tbilisi. In 1935 he moved to Moscow and placed second at the Soviet championships; he won the championships in 1936 and finished third in 1937 and 1941.

Louis Joseph Baise (born 4 May 1927) is a South African former Olympic wrestler.

György Gurics (27 January 1929 – 10 September 2013) was a Hungarian wrestler. He was born in Dunapentele in Fejér County. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling from 1952. He won a gold medal in Greco-Roman Wrestling at the 1961 World Wrestling Championships. He was named Hungarian Sportsman of The Year in 1961.

Halit Balamir (1922 – 2 March 2009) was a Turkish sport wrestler. He was born in Gümüşhane He won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling, flyweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Borchers

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Gruezo

The Better Public Broadcasting Association was organized in 1995 in Clinton, Oklahoma by a group of local radio broadcasters intended to bring some sense of local ownership to the airwaves and disseminate useful and meaningful information to the public, not only in the event of an emergency but on a day by day and hour by hour basis to their service area.The Better Public Broadcasting Association, Inc.

Lehtonen at the 1956 Olympics

KOJ

Zemanski

The Better Public Broadcasting Association was organized in 1995 in Clinton, Oklahoma by a group of local radio broadcasters intended to bring some sense of local ownership to the airwaves and disseminate useful and meaningful information to the public, not only in the event of an emergency but on a day by day and hour by hour basis to their service area.The Better Public Broadcasting Association, Inc. was incorporated in the state of Oklahoma in 2006 and participated in the Non-commercial educational broadcasting filing window of 2007 as designated by the Federal Communications Commission to start serving small communities with true local radio programming and public service. Following that initial filing window in 2007, BPBA was awarded construction permits for 6 non-commercial educational broadcast facilities; another was purchased in 2009.

Jones

Avtandil Koridze (Georgian: ავთანდილ ქორიძე; 15 April 1935 – 11 April 1966) was a lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia who won an Olympic gold medal in 1960 and a world title in 1961. He never won a Soviet title, placing second in 1957 and 1960 and third in 1958.Koridze took up wrestling in 1949 and in 1957 was included to the Soviet national team. He retired in 1961 and died five years later in a car crash, together with a fellow Olympic wrestler Roman Dzeneladze.

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Dirk Nowitzki

Perquis

Romero vs. Osamu Watanabe at the 1964 Olympics

Secretary general of the German Football Association

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Tauno Kovanen (1917–1986) was a Finnish wrestler. He was born in Kuru. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1952.

Cascadia Cup 2 / MLS 13

Ahmet Bilek (1932, Kula in Manisa, Turkey – 1971, Germany), was a Turkish Olympic champion sports wrestler in the flyweight class (52 kg) and a trainer. He won the gold medal in men's freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.He was born in 1932 in the western Turkish town of Kula in Manisa Province.After his successful participation at the Olympics in Rome, Ahmet Bilek emigrated to Germany following his teammates Mithat Bayrak and Müzahir Sille. He continued his sports career in the wrestling club KSV Köllerbach in Püttlingen, a small town near Saarbrücken and became German champion in 1966 and 1968.Ahmet Bilek ended his life 1971 in Germany. He was married with Ayten and had a son Ali and a daughter Sevil.

Frithjof Clausen (13 March 1916 – 9 May 1998) was a Norwegian wrestler. He was born in Kolbotn, and represented the club Kolbotn IL. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he placed sixth, and at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Eskilstuna GAK

Location in Japan

Bari, Italy

Glad

Guido Fantoni (4 February 1919 – 28 December 1974) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy who won bronze medals at the 1948 Olympics and 1953 World Championships.

Maruti Mane

Anatoly Ivanovich Parfyonov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Парфëнов, 17 November 1925 – 28 January 1993) was a Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.In his youth Parfyonov worked as a mechanic at a spinning and weaving factory. In 1942, during World War II, he enlisted to the Soviet Army, and fought as a machine gunner and later as a T-34 tank driver.

Sandy, Utah, U.S.

Sources: FAA and airport website

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Olave

Celal Atik (1920 – 27 April 1979) was a Turkish wrestler and coach. He competed both in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, but had his best achievements in the freestyle, winning gold medals at the 1948 Olympics, 1951 World and 1946 and 1949 European championships.He was born in the village of Gürdan in the Boğazlıyan district of Yozgat Province, Turkey. He changed his family name from "Doğan" to "Atik" (literally, "Slippy") after a proposal by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Turkish Republic, who noticed his speed at the 1938 national championships.After retiring from competition, from 1955 to 1979 he coached the national wrestling team and prepared multiple international competitors. Appointed the head trainer by the International Wrestling Federation (FILA) in Switzerland, he gave lessons on wrestling techniques to sportspeople from all around the world.He is recognized as one of Turkey's best wrestlers, with exceptional technique as well as the most aesthetic physique. In addition to his other honors, he was awarded with the Légion d'honneur of France.Atik died on 27 April 1979 in a hospital in Ankara. Two sports halls—one in İzmir with a capacity of 1,200 people and another one in his hometown Yozgat—are named after him.

Bjørn Cook (11 April 1917 – 30 September 2003) was a Norwegian wrestler. He was born in Trondheim, and represented the club IF Ørnulf. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Boris Kulayev (18 July 1929 – 12 August 2008) was a Russian wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Roman Mikhaylovich Dzeneladze (Russian: Роман Михайлович Дзенеладзе, 12 April 1933 – 11 April 1966) was a featherweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. In 1956 he won a Soviet title and a bronze medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics. He died in a car crash together with fellow Olympic wrestler Avtandil Koridze.

Cascadia Cup 5 / MLS 27

Aliyar Aghayev (Azerbaijani: Əliyar Ağayev; born on 17 October 1987) is an Azerbaijani football referee.Aghayev became a FIFA referee in 2013.He refereed at 2015–16 UEFA Europa League group stage.Aghayev officiated the 2016 UEFA European Under-19 Championship Final match of France vs. Italy at Rhein-Neckar-Arena in Sinsheim, Germany on 24 July 2016.

Oleg Nikolayevich Karavayev (Russian: Олег Николаевич Караваев, 20 May 1936 – 23 August 1978) was a Soviet bantamweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the world title in 1958 and 1961 and an Olympic gold medal in 1960.Karavayev took up wrestling aged 16 and quickly became one of the most technically gifted Soviet wrestlers. Between 1956 and 1962 he rarely lost a bout, and won the Soviet title every year except for 1961.

Raúl Alberto Romero (born March 11, 1935) is a retired Argentinian wrestler. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics both in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, but lost all his matches.

Knockout Round

Konstantin Vyrupayev (10 October 1930 – 31 October 2012) was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion.He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome he won a bronze medal in the featherweight class.

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Reino Kalervo Kangasmäki (2 July 1916 – 26 September 2010) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He won a bronze medal in the flyweight class at the 1948 Olympics, his only major international tournament. At the national championships Kangasmäki placed third in 1943 and second in 1947.Kangasmäki was born in a family of a lumberjack. He started training in wrestling around 1935 and retired in 1951.

Adil Candemir (1917–1989) was a Turkish sport wrestler. He was born in Amasya. He won a silver medal in freestyle wrestling, middleweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Yang H.C. 8

McInerney

Abdel Al-Rashid

Nasar 13

Kagoshima, Japan

Dumitru Pârvulescu (or, in older spelling, Pîrvulescu; June 14, 1933 in Lugoj, Timiş County — 2006 in Bucharest) was a Romanian Greco-Roman style wrestler and Olympic champion.

Emam-Ali Habibi Goudarzi (Persian: امامعلی حبیبی گودرزی‎‎, born May 13, 1931, in Babol ,Darzikola-e-Akhundi, a village 3 km from Babol, Mazandaran, Iran) is an Iranian wrestler who competed in Freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Habibi also took 4th at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, losing one of his matches by fall to Douglas Blubaugh of the United States.

Rivero
Alonso

Mehmet Nuri Boytorun (1908 – November 28, 1988) was a Turkish Olympian sport wrestler, trainer and technical director. He competed in the Middleweight division of Greco-Roman category at the Summer Olympics 1928 and 1936.He was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. He was the Balkan champion four times in a row. Nuri Boytorun was Turkey's flag bearer at the 1936 Summer Olympics.After retiring from the active sports, he served as the trainer of the Turkish national team.

Riguldi, Estonia

Hermann Baumann (born 23 January 1921) is a retired Swiss freestyle wrestler who won a bronze medal in the lightweight class at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Group Stage 2

Mohammad Mehdi Yaghoubi (Persian: محمد مهدی یعقوبی‎‎; born 2 April 1930, in Qazvin) is a retired Iranian wrestler. He was Olympic silver medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1956, and also competed at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics. He won a bronze medal at the 1951 World Wrestling Championships. He lost to Rashid Mammadbeyov of the Soviet Union at the round of 64 at the 1952 Olympics.

India

Served as a judge on the International Court of Justice

Angel Kerezov (Bulgarian: Ангел Керезов) (born 24 July 1939) is a Bulgarian former wrestler who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Kangasmäki at the 1948 Olympics

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Francisc Horvat (born 19 October 1928) is a Romanian former wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics and in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Larentowicz

Tokyo, Japan

Tbilisi, Georgia

Bengt "Falan" Fahlqvist (15 April 1922 – 7 March 2004) was a Swedish wrestler who competed at the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics. He won a bronze medal in the freestyle light-heavyweight division in 1948 and finished sixth as a Greco-Roman heavyweight in 1952. He won the European freestyle title in 1946 by beating Fritz Stöckli in the final, but lost to Stöckli in the Olympic semifinal in 1948.

Japan

Erik Hurtado

Loek Alflen (29 August 1933 – 17 August 2015) was a Dutch wrestler, he was Dutch national champion in the flyweight category between 1951 and 1970. He competed at the 1960 Olympics.Alflen was born in Utrecht, he was raised in a family with a total of thirteen children. As a six-year-old he became a member of the wrestling club De Halter, eventually all his seven brothers also joined. Five of the brothers eventually became national champions.

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Aircraft operations

Asphalt/Concrete

Uddevalla IS

Fagundez

Abdallah Sidani (born 1923) is a retired Lebanese wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Waukesha County Airport

Meira

Muhlis Tayfur (1922–2008) was a Turkish sport wrestler. He was born in Erzurum. He won a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, middleweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

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Mohammad Khadem Azghadi (Persian: محمد خادم ازغدی‎‎, born September 7, 1935 in Mashhad) was an Iranian Freestyle wrestler. He is the father of the Khadem brothers, world champion and olympic medalist Amir Reza Khadem and world and olympic champion Rasoul Khadem.

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Nizamuddin Subhani (born 10 November 1925 in Kabul), is an Afghan wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in the heavyweight freestyle event.

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Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986. Jack Welch made it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. Today, it is used in many industrial sectors.Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of the output of a process by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes.

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James Michael "Jim" Armstrong (14 July 1917 – 8 July 1981) was an Australian sport wrestler and rugby league player. He was born in Albury, New South Wales, and worked as a police officer.Armstrong was selected to play for Australia against Great Britain as a front row forward in the third and deciding Ashes test in 1946, becoming Kangaroo No. 233. He won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling, heavyweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.At the 1950 British Empire Games Armstrong won the heavyweight wrestling gold medal.At the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games Armstrong won the light heavyweight wrestling bronze medal.

Obayan

Rıza Doğan (1931–2004) was a Turkish wrestler. He was born in Ankara. He won a silver medal in lightweight at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

Kyösti Lehtonen

Mashike, Hokkaido, Japan

Amarikwa

Kalervo Rauhala (born October 19, 1930) is a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Halil Kaya (born 1920) is a Turkish sport wrestler. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, bantamweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Arboga, Sweden

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Tadashi Asai (28 November 1935 – 6 January 1990) was a Japanese wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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Abolghasem Sakhdari (Persian: ابولقاسم سخدری‎‎, born in Neishabour, Iran) was a former Iranian wrestler who competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics where he finished 5th.

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Ercole Gallegati (21 November 1911 – 19 August 1990) was an Italian wrestler. He won bronze medals in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1932 and 1948 Olympics and 1934 European Championships. He also competed in the 1936 Olympics, both in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and at the 1952 Olympics. Domestically he won 20 Italian titles in Greco-Roman and 11 in freestyle wrestling between 1931 and 1956. After retiring from competitions he became a wrestling coach and a member of the Faenza city council.

GAK Enighet, Malmö

Sauro

Mohammad Ali Sanatkaran (Persian: محمدعلی صنعتكاران‎‎, born March 18, 1937 in Tehran) is an Iranian wrestler who won a bronze medal in Freestyle at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Reidar Merli (1 April 1917 – 29 December 2007) was a Norwegian wrestler. He was born in Aurskog-Høland, and represented the club Kolbotn IL. He competed in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, where he placed sixth (shared), and at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, where he placed fifth.

Djurgårdens IF, Stockholm

Freestyle wrestling

Yaşar Erkan (30 April 1911 in Erzincan – 18 May 1986) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who became first Olympic gold medalist for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling.Son of a renowned wrestler for yağlı güreş (oil wrestling), he moved with his family from their village İspidi in the Refahiye district of Erzincan Province to Istanbul at 4 years of age. In 1933, he was admitted to the national team and won the Balkan Championship the same year.

Kagoshima Airport (鹿児島空港, Kagoshima Kūkō) (IATA: KOJ, ICAO: RJFK) is an airport located in Kirishima, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan, 29.6 km (18.4 mi) northeast of Kagoshima-Chūō Station in Kagoshima City. It is the second-busiest airport in Kyushu after Fukuoka Airport.Japan Air Commuter, a regional affiliate of Japan Airlines, has its headquarters at the airport.

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Boris Gurevich (wrestler, born 1931)

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Kaká

Bror Viking Palm (13 October 1923 – 19 January 2009) was a Swedish light-heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1952, finishing fourth in 1960. In 1960 his bronze medal match against Anatoly Albul ended in a draw, but Albul had a lower body weight. Palm won two medals at the world championships, in 1951 and 1954.Palm was born to a farmer and started training in wrestling aged 16, together with his elder brother Evert.

Bolaños

Anatoly Mikhaylovich Albul (Russian: Анатолий Михайлович Албул ; 1 June 1936 – 13, August 2013) was a Russian wrestler. He was born in Leningrad. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union. He won a silver medal at the 1963 World Wrestling Championships.

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Nabiollah "Nabi" Sorouri (Persian: نبى الله سرورى‎‎; born 1933 in Baku – deceased 2002 Tehran ) was an Iranian wrestler who became a member of Iran senior national Wrestling team in 1953 and was a member until 1960. Sorouri competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he managed to obtain fourth place in the 73 kg division. He won the gold medal in the 79 kg division of Freestyle wrestling at the 1957 World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo, he managed to win the silver medal of the 79 kg division. In the 1965 FILA Wrestling World Championships in Manchester Nabi Sorouri was the head coach of Iran senior national Wrestling team and led his team to championship in Freestyle which was Iran's second World championship.

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United States, and worldwide through several different outlets. All Things Considered and Morning Edition were the highest rated public radio programs in the United States in 2002 and 2005.

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Imre Hódos (January 10, 1928 in Hajdúnánás - April 23, 1989 in Debrecen) was a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Cascadia Cup 3 / MLS 21

İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.He was born 1931 in Çukurören village of Kozan district in Adana Province of southern Turkey. He began wrestling in 1950 and was trained by the renowned wrestlers Celal Atik and Yaşar Doğu.İsmet Atlı competed at several international wrestling events successfully in both wrestling styles and participated at three consecutive Olympic Games in 1952, 1956 and 1960.After his retirement from the active sports in 1962, İsmet Atlı acted as a trainer. He also worked as a sports journalist.

All Things Considered (ATC) is the flagship news program on the American network National Public Radio (NPR). It was the first news program on NPR, premiering on May 3, 1971. It is broadcast live on NPR affiliated stations in the United States, and worldwide through several different outlets. All Things Considered and Morning Edition were the highest rated public radio programs in the United States in 2002 and 2005. The show combines news, analysis, commentary, interviews, and special features, and its segments vary in length and style. ATC airs weekdays from 4:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. A weekend version of ATC, Weekends On All Things Considered, airs on Saturdays and Sundays.

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Abdelhalim, El-Gammal 3

Mikhail Shakhov (born 20 November 1931 in Saratov, Soviet Union) is an Soviet Ukrainian former wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Shigeru Kasahara (born 11 June 1933) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Kiril Petkov (Bulgarian: Кирил Петков) (born 8 June 1933) is a Bulgarian former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Seyed Abdollah Mojtabavi (Persian: سید عبدالله مجتبوی‎‎, January 4, 1925 – January 13, 2012) was an Iranian international freestyle wrestling athlete. He competed at 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

Shohachi Ishii in 1956

Sebastián Lartaún

Gyula Tóth (16 April 1927 in Salgótarján – 18 March 2001 in Budapest) was a Hungarian wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

MLS 4

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Igboananike

Wrestling

Manotas

Sangli, Maharashtra, India

Goalkeeping Coach

Erkki Penttilä (June 14, 1932 – April 19, 2005) was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist. He competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne where he received a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling.

Osaka Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Civil Aviation Bureau

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GS Italsider Genova

MLS 25

Ahmet Bilek (1932, Kula in Manisa, Turkey – 1971, Germany), was a Turkish Olympic champion sports wrestler in the flyweight class (52 kg) and a trainer. He won the gold medal in men's freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.He was born in 1932 in the western Turkish town of Kula in Manisa Province.After his successful participation at the Olympics in Rome, Ahmet Bilek emigrated to Germany following his teammates Mithat Bayrak and Müzahir Sille.

Oulu, Finland

Hasan Güngör at the 1960 Olympics

Guram "Guliko" Sagaradze (Georgian გურამ საღარაძე ; born 21 March 1939 in Tbilisi) is a former Soviet wrestler and World Champion.He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo where he won a silver medal in Freestyle wrestling. He was also two times world champion (in 1963 and 1965).

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Sulo Leppänen (15 January 1916 – 12 March 2015) was a Finnish wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Baku, Azerbaijan

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Shozo Sasahara (笹原 正三, Sasahara Shōzō, born July 28, 1929) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a world title in 1954 and an Olympics gold medal in 1956. He was the flag bearer for Japan at the 1956 Games.During his career Sasahara won approximately 200 bouts. After retiring from competitions he worked as a national coach. His trainees included Osamu Watanabe.Sasahara is credited with designing "bound tennis" in 1980, which is a form of tennis played on a small-sized court. In 1981 he became the founding president of Japan Bound Tennis Association.Between 1989 and 2003 Sasahara was president of Japan Wrestling Association. For many years he also served as Vice-President of United World Wrestling (FILA), and was later named its Honorary Vice-president. In 2006 he was inducted to the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame.

Maruti Mane (10 August 1938 – 27 July 2010) was an Indian former wrestler who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.Mane had a glorious run as a wrestler between 1962 and 1972 and did exceedingly well for the country in major championships. In the 1970 Commonwealth Games, he won silver in the unlimited freestyle event. In the 1962 Asian Games, he won gold in the 97 kg freestyle and the silver in the 97 kg Greco-Roman events.Mane was crowned Hind Kesari in 1964 after defeating Rajasthan wrestler Mahiruddin. He was at one time listed among the best wrestlers in the world. He was also presented with the prestigious Dhyan Chand award by the Union government.In his wrestling days, Mane used to work out for almost 10 to 12 hours daily. His fitness was said to be the reason for him lasting a good 11 minutes against the then all-conquering Russian wrestler Alexander Medved in 1967. No wrestler could last for more than a couple of minutes against the Medved, who was crowned world champion four times and won three Olympic golds in Tokyo (1964), Mexico (1968) and Munich (1972).

Adolf Müller (born 11 April 1914) is a Swiss freestyle wrestler who won a bronze medal in the featherweight division at the 1948 Olympics.

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Baroque architecture in Castilla-La Mancha

Bishop of Cusco

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Bruce Arthur and Russell Mockridge in 1948

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Location in Cheshire

Photograph of Sasahara at the 1956 Olympics, signed by him

Dwayne 'Fatso' Leverock

Mehmet Oktav (1917 in Istanbul, Turkey – 1996) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who became Olympic gold medalist for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling in 1948.He began his sports career as a football player in 1942, switched over, however, to wrestling afterwards. He won the gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in 62 kg class as the second Turkish wrestler after Yaşar Erkan. Before retiring in 1953, he competed 13 times in the national team. Mehmet Oktav served then in some sports clubs and in the national team 17 years long as a trainer.

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Istanbul Güreş İK

Dunk Island, Queensland, Australia

Vaasa, Finland

Maruti Mane (10 August 1938 – 27 July 2010) was an Indian former wrestler who competed in the 1964 Summer Olympics.Mane had a glorious run as a wrestler between 1962 and 1972 and did exceedingly well for the country in major championships. In the 1970 Commonwealth Games, he won silver in the unlimited freestyle event.

Bjørn Larsson (born 18 October 1924) is a Norwegian former sport wrestler. He competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, where he reached the second round. He represented the club IF Ørnulf.

Calvano

Amir Jan Khalunder (20 November 1924) born in Kabul he was an Afghanistan wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in the lightweight freestyle event.

John Walter da Silva

Garibaldo Nizzola (3 December 1927 – December 2012) was an Italian freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1948, 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics in the lightweight division with the best achievement of fourth place in 1948. In 1951 he won silver medals at the world championships and Mediterranean Games. His father, Marcello Nizzola, won a silver medal in wrestling at the 1932 Olympics.He died in December 2012 at the age of 85.

Charles Kouyos (1928–1994) was a French sport wrestler. He was born in Marseille. He won a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling, bantamweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Jurist

Lund, Sweden

Kankaanpää, Finland

Chang Chang-sun (or Jang Chang-seon, Hangul: 장창선, Hanja: 張昌宣; born June 12, 1942) is a retired South Korean freestyle wrestler. He won a silver medal at the 1964 Summer Olympics and a world title in 1966.

November 2011
MLS 9

Kyösti Eemil "Köpi" Lehtonen (13 March 1931 – 15 November 1987) was a lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1956, placing fifth in 1960. Previously he won two silver medals at the world championships in 1953 and 1955. Domestically he won nine Finnish titles in 1952–57 and 1960–62. Lehtonen retired after the 1964 Olympics and coached the Norwegian (1964), Danish (1964) and Finnish national teams (1971–74).

Moscow, Russia

MLS 19

Ferdinand Schmitz (born October 14, 1919) is a former German wrestler who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In Helsinki he participated in both the freestyle and Greco-Roman bantamweight competitions, eventually withdrawing from the former and finishing sixth in the latter. He had two podium results at the European Championships, placing third in 56 kg Greco-Roman event in 1938 and second in the 61-kg Greco-Roman event in 1939. He was born in Cologne and was a member of ESV Olympia Köln. His brother Heini Nettesheim was also an Olympic wrestler who competed in 1936, as well as 1952.

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German

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Frederick "Fred" Arthur Thomas (born 14 September 1938) is a former wrestler from New Zealand.He competed at the 1962 British Empire and Commonwealth Games where he won the bronze medal in the men's 82 kg (flyweight) grade.Thomas competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in the men's middleweight event.

Chang Chang-sun

Franco Benedetti (born 30 October 1932) is a retired Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He competed at the 1952 and 1960 Olympics and finished in 5th and 12th place, respectively. He won a bronze medal at the 1953 World Wrestling Championships.

Lidköping, Sweden

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Nour Aka Sayed (6 October 1944) is a retired Afghanistan Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in the featherweight event.

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Kyösti Eemil "Köpi" Lehtonen (13 March 1931 – 15 November 1987) was a lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1956, placing fifth in 1960. Previously he won two silver medals at the world championships in 1953 and 1955. Domestically he won nine Finnish titles in 1952–57 and 1960–62. Lehtonen retired after the 1964 Olympics and coached the Norwegian (1964), Danish (1964) and Finnish national teams (1971–74). Later he was elected as a board member of the Finnish Wrestling Federation.

Mohammad Ibrahim Kederi (10 August 1940) born in Kabul. He is a retired Afghanistan wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in the featherweight freestyle event.

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Mehmet Çoban (1905–1969), aka Koç Çoban Mehmet, was a Turkish Olympian wrestler in the heavyweight division of Greco-Roman style.He was born 1905 in Balıkesir, Ottoman Empire. A shepherd, he was discovered by the local military commander Hikmet Pasha during a Turkish traditional sport yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) match, and was sent to Istanbul to join "İstanbul Güreş İhtisas Kulübü", a renowned club specialized in wrestling. During his sport career from 1928 until his retirement in 1940, he was the only heavyweight wrestler of Turkey's national Greco-Roman wrestling team.Mehmet Çoban became 5 times Balkan champion and earned also once the silver medal at the Balkan and the European Championships each. At his age of 41, Mehmet Çoban won a bronze medal at the European Championship. He participated at the 1928 and 1936 Olympics, ranking 8th and 4th respectively.Mehmet Çoban died in 1969.Mehmet Çoban The left arm of Said Coban

Mohammad Ali Khojastehpour (1931–2007) was an Iranian wrestler. He was Olympic silver medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1956.

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Sultan Mohammad Dost (10 May 1932) born in Kabul is a former Afghanistan wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in the welterweight freestyle event.

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Yaşar Doğu (1913 - 8 January 1961), was a renowned Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler of Circassian descent in Greco-Roman and Freestyle.He was born in the village Karlı of Kavak district in Samsun province to a family of Circassian origin. He began wrestling at his age of 15 in yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) and continued in this folk sports until he entered the military service.

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The Light Tank, T1 was a United States Army light tank of the late 1920s and early 1930s that was only built in prototype form. The tank was an Army design built by James Cunningham, Son and Company. Introduced in 1927, it was developed up through 1932 as a series of modified versions (T1E1, T1E2, T1E3, T1E4, T1E5, and T1E6). The tank was never mass-produced, nor was it ever used in combat.

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Bruce Cutler (born April 29, 1948) is an American criminal defense lawyer best known for having defended John Gotti, and for media appearances as a legal commentator.

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Josef Růžička (1925 – 1986) was a Czechoslovak wrestler. He was born in Prague. He won an Olympic silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1952.

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Oddvar Barlie (born 24 June 1929 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sport wrestler.He was born in Oslo and represented the club Oslo Bryteklubb. He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, where he placed tied tenth in Greco-Roman wrestling, the middleweight class. He is a brother of wrestler Harald Barlie. He an uncle of Ine Barlie and Mette Barlie and granduncle of Lene Barlie, all wrestlers.

Ankara, Turkey

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Russell Dwayne Mark Leverock (born 14 July 1971 in Bermuda) is a former Bermudian cricketer.Dwayne is currently in talks with Ben Rhydding about becoming their overseas player for the upcoming season. Talks are looking positive and Dwayne is quoted at saying "he would jump at the chance to play for them".Known as 'Sluggo' and living above a curry house in Bermuda, Leverock is a policeman and also drives a prison van.

Kutaisi, Georgia

Mansour Raeisi (Persian: منصور رئیسی‎‎; 1928–1980) was an Iranian Olympician Freestyle Wrestler and FILA International Referee.

Leo Ilmo Honkala (8 January 1933 – 17 May 2015) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In the following several years he suffered several shoulder injuries, and retired from competitions in 1956 after winning his only national title. In retirement he first worked as a policeman in Finland, but in the late 1960s immigrated to Sweden, and in 1974–85 trained the Swedish wrestling team.

Arsen Mekokishvili (Georgian: არსენ მეკოკიშვილი) (April 12, 1912 – March 9, 1972) was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.He was born in Georgitsminda, Georgia and died in Moscow.

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Edvin Vesterby (born 23 October 1927) is a retired Swedish bantamweight wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling and won a Greco-Roman silver medal in 1956. He finished fourth in the freestyle in 1952 and in the Greco-Roman wrestling in 1960.He was born in Riguldi Parish (now Noarootsi Parish), Lääne County, Estonia into a Swedish-speaking family. In 1943 he emigrated to Sweden and started wrestling in 1947 in Stockholm.

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Denizli, Turkey

Abou Rejaile Bechara (born 1922) is a former Lebanese wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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Nasser Givehchi (Persian: ناصر گیوه چی‎‎, born November 12, 1932 Tehran) is an Iranian wrestler. He won the silver medal in the Featherweight division of Freestyle wrestling in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, and also competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he managed to obtain sixth place in the 62 kg division. He ranked fifth at the 1954 World Wrestling Championships in Tokyo. In the 1958 Asian Games in Tokyo Givehchi managed to win the bronze medal of the 62 kg division.

Yaghoub Ali Shourvarzi (Persian: یعقوبعلی شورورزی‎‎, born August 27, 1923 in Neishabour, Iran) was a former Iranian wrestler who competed at the 1959 FILA Wrestling World Championships and 1960 Summer Olympics where he finished 6th.

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Tor Folke René Nilsson (20 March 1919 – 13 April 1989) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden who won a silver medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Mohammad Din is a former wrestler from Pakistan who competed in many international events, including the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Hasan Güngör (5 July 1934 – 13 October 2011) was a middleweight Turkish wrestler (79 kg before 1961, 87 kg after 1961) and a wrestling coach. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1964 Olympics, as well as multiple medals at the World, European and Balkan championships. After retiring from competitions in 1967, Güngör worked for more than 20 years as a coach of the junior and senior national teams. Güngör was married and had three children. He lived in Denizli until his death.

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Aage Eriksen (born May 5, 1917 in Notodden, died June 17, 1998 in Notodden, Telemark) was a Norwegian wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.

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Bohumil Kubát (14 February 1935 – 12 May 2016) was a wrestler who competed for Czechoslovakia. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1960. He competed at the 1964 Olympics, where he placed fourth in Freestyle wrestling.

Adel Ibrahim Moustafa (18 January 1930 – 2006) was an Egyptian wrestler. He competed at the 1948 Olympics in the welterweight freestyle wrestling and at the 1952 Olympics in the middleweight Greco-Roman event, but was eliminated in the preliminary bouts in both games. A 1955 Mediterranean Games Champion, he was one of three sons of Ibrahim Moustafa, a 1928 Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Kazuo Katsuramoto (born September 5, 1934) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler. In 1954 he won the −79 kg event at the Asian Games and finished third at the world championships. He shared fifth place at the 1956 Summer Olympics.

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İbrahim Zengin (born 1931) is a Turkish wrestler. He was born in Amasya. He was Olympic silver medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1956. He won a bronze medal at the 1951 World Wrestling Championships.

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Vladimir Rubashvili (Georgian: ვლადიმერ რუბაშვილი ; 1940 – 1964) was a wrestler from Georgia. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union.

Károly Ferencz (1913 – 1984) was a Hungarian sport wrestler. He was born in Budapest. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, lightweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Vladimir Ivanovich Synyavsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Синявський; 18 February 1932 – 27 December 2012) was a lightweight freestyle wrestler from Ukraine who won a world title in 1959 and placed second at the 1960 Olympics and 1961 World Championships. At the 1959 World Championships he won all his opponents by fall.Sinyavsky took up wrestling in 1950, when he started to work at the Kharkiv Electromechanical Plant UkrElektroMash, and won the Soviet lightweight title in 1957–59 and 1961, finishing second in 1960. His left wrist was handicapped for life by an explosion during World War II. After retiring from competitions in 1966 he worked as a wrestling coach in Kyiv.

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Ahmet Kireççi (aka Ahmet Mersinli, 27 October 1914 in Mersin – 17 August 1979 in Mersin, Turkey), was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the Olympic medal twice, the bronze medal in the Middleweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1936 Olympics and the gold medal in the Heavyweight class of Men's Greco-Roman category at the 1948 Olympics.Born in the southern city of Mersin, he began first boxing and then continued in athletics.

Kenan Olcay (born 1914, date of death unknown) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Turkey. He won a silver medal in the flyweight class at the 1948 Olympics.

Nikola Nikolov Stanchev (Bulgarian: Никола Николов Станчев, 11 September 1930 – 12 July 2009) was a Bulgarian freestyle wrestler.He was born in Tvarditsa, Burgas province.He was the 1956 Olympic Games middle weight freestyle wrestling champion - the first Bulgarian Olympics gold medal - and silver medal winner at the World championship in Istanbul the same year.

Rune Jansson (born 29 May 1932) is a retired Swedish Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He won another bronze at the 1958 World Championships, finishing fourth in 1955 and 1962.

Dinko Petrov (Bulgarian: Динко Петров) (born 10 March 1935) is a Bulgarian former wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics, in the 1960 Summer Olympics, and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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Masayuki Matsubara (松原 正之, Matsubara Masayuki, born 7 February 1939) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Kurt Arne Pettersén (21 June 1916 – 15 November 1957) was a bantamweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Sweden who won a gold medal at the 1948 Summer Olympics. He won silver medals at the European championships in 1938 and 1939 (Greco-Roman) and 1949 (freestyle).Kurt was born in a family of 11 siblings with Norwegian roots. Between 1936 and 1951 he won 22 Swedish titles in wrestling. He died of cancer aged 41.

Sebastián Lartaún (died 9 Oct 1583) was a Roman Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Cuzco (1570-1583).

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Borivoje Vukov (July 8, 1929 – July 1, 2010) was a Serbian wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the 1956 Summer Olympics, and in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Senta and died in Belgrade

Mansour Raeisi (Persian: منصور رئیسی‎‎; 1928–1980) was an Iranian Olympician Freestyle Wrestler and FILA International Referee. He is considered as one of the most notable Iranian wrestlers of his generation.He represented Iran at 1948 Summer Olympics –the very first appearance of Iranian wrestlers in an International competition– and had the best performance among Iranian wrestlers in the games, losing semifinal to Turkish silver-medalist Halit Balamir and placing in the 4th place.He also coached Iran national freestyle wrestling athletes in 1967 World Wrestling Championships.Deaflympics champion Karim Raeisinia is also his cousin.

Gyula Bóbis (7 October 1909 in Kecskemét - 24 January 1972 in Budapest) was a Hungarian wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.

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Thure Emanuel Johansson (11 September 1912 – 12 March 1986) was a Swedish freestyle wrestler who won a bronze medal in the flyweight division at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

Hans Yngve Antonsson (born 8 November 1934) is a retired Swedish freestyle wrestler who won a bronze medal at the 1960 Olympics. His uncle Bertil Antonsson was also an Olympic wrestler.

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Yoshikatsu Yoshida (吉田 義勝, Yoshida Yoshikatsu, born October 30, 1941) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won gold medals in the 52 kg category at the 1964 Summer Olympics and 1965 World Wrestling Championships.Born in Hokkaido, Yoshida graduated from the Nihon University in Tokyo.

Givi Kartozia (Georgian: გივი კარტოზია; 29 March 1929 – 3 April 1998) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 and a world title in 1953, 1955 and 1958. Domestically he was the Soviet middleweight champion in 1952–55, and placed second in 1956 and third in 1950 and 1951. For the 1960 Olympics he moved up to the light-heavyweight class and won a bronze medal.

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Mohammad Asif Khokan (born 10 June 1936 in Kabul) is a former Afghanistan wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in the middleweight freestyle event.

Ivan Havrylovich Bohdan (Ukrainian: Іван Гаврилович Богдан; born February 29, 1928) is a Ukrainian wrestler. He won an Olympic gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union. He won gold medals at the 1958 and 1961 World Wrestling Championships. He began to wrestle during his army service, when he was already 22-old years old. He had been working in Kolkhoz from childhood.

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Abdel Aal Ahmed Rashed, also known as Abdel Aal Rashed was a Featherweight (57–61 kg) in the wrestling Egyptian team at the Summer Olympics of 1952 in Helsinki. He gained a Bronze medal and the only medal for Egypt in that year.

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Ferenc Tóth (1909–1981) won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

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Shazam Sergeyevich Safin (Russian: Шазам Серге́евич Сафин, Tatar: Шәзам Сафа улы Сафин; born April 7, 1932 – 1985) was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kochki-Pozharki, Nizhny Novgorod.At the USSR championship-1952 Shazam Safin took the third place. According to the classification of that period, this result was not high enough for the title of master of sports to be conferred upon the athlete.

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John Walter da Silva, QSM, or John Silva (born in Pukekohe on 11 June 1934) is a former New Zealand wrestler and boxer. He represented New Zealand in wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In 1955 he held both the New Zealand Heavyweight Wrestling title and the Auckland Heavyweight Boxing title. His family was of a mixed race, being Portuguese, African, English and French Tahitian.He was an amateur from 1953, then turned professional after the 1958 Commonwealth Games in Cardiff. He wrestled throughout New Zealand and around the world.He retired in 1977, and subsequently worked with disadvantaged youth. He was awarded the Queen's Service Medal for community service in the 1994 New Year Honours. He now lives on Great Barrier Island. He is the father of boxer Garth da Silva.

Joseph ben Abraham Gikatilla (1248 – after 1305) (Hebrew: יוסף בן אברהם ג'יקטיליה‎‎, Spanish: Chiquitilla, "the little") was a Spanish kabbalist, student of Abraham Abulafia.

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Pietro Lombardi (4 June 1922 – 5 October 2011) was a Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He who won a gold medal in the flyweight division at the 1948 Olympics and placed third at the world championships in 1950 and 1955.

René Schiermeyer (born 27 September 1938 in Mulhouse) is a French former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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Mustafa Dağıstanlı (11 April 1931, Çarşamba, Turkey), is a former Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal twice in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics and was three times World champion.Born on 11 April 1931 in the village Söğütpınar in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province, he began wrestling in his age of 18. Mustafa Dağıstanlı was admitted 1958 to the national team.

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Atik at the 1948 Olympics

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Valentin Nikolayev (Ukrainian: Валентин Владимирович Николаев; 1924–2004) was a wrestler from Kirovohrad, Ukraine. He was Olympic gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1956, competing for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships.

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Yushu Kitano (14 April 1930 – 27 February 2016) was a Japanese wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Nasuh Akar (10 May 1925 – 18 May 1984) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal in the Bantamweight class of Men's Freestyle category at the 1948 Olympics.He was born in the village Yiğitler (today Sorsavuş) of Boğazlıyan district of Yozgat Province. Following his gold medal win at the 1948 London Olympics, Nasuh Akar became European and World champion. In 1952, he retired from active wrestling and served then as trainer.He died on 18 May 1984. His wife Ayşe Akar succeeded him.

Mithat Bayrak (3 March 1929 – 20 April 2014) was a Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won two gold medals in the Welterweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics.Born on 3 March 1929 in Adapazarı of Sakarya Province, he began 1948 the wrestling sport in Sakarya Güneş Spor club. Following his admission to the national team, he was trained by the renowned wrestlers Gazanfer Bilge, Mehmet Oktav, Hüseyin Erkmen and Celal Atik.

Minsk, Belarus

Jahanbakht Tofigh (Persian: جهانبخت توفیق ‎‎, born 1931 Sarab, East Azerbaijan – deceased 1970 London) was an Iranian Freestyle wrestler. He won a gold medal in the 1954 World Wrestling Championships which was Iran's first gold medal in the World Wrestling Championships, and also a bronze medal in the lightweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki.

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Boris Maksovich Gurevich (Russian: Борис Максимович Гуревич; 23 March 1931 – 10 January 1995) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from the Soviet Union. He won gold medals at the 1952 Olympics and 1953 and 1958 world championships.Gurevich first trained in gymnastics and took up wrestling only in 1948. He won the Soviet wrestling titles in 1950 and 1955, placing second in 1952, 1959 and 1960 and third in 1963. After retiring from competitions he coached wrestlers in Moscow, where since 1996 an annual international wrestling tournament has been held in his honor.

Richard Bruce Arthur (2 November 1921 – 22 March 1998) was an Australian freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal in the middleweight division at the 1950 British Empire Games; he finished fourth in 1954. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics, but was eliminated after three bouts.

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Friedrich Curtius

Dimitar Dobrev (Bulgarian: Димитър Добрев, born April 14, 1931) is a former Greco-Roman wrestler from Bulgaria, where he spent most of his professional career.He became Olympic champion in the 1960 Summer Olympics.He was born in Ezerche.

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Shalva Konstantinovich Chikhladze (12 July 1912 – 14 January 1997) was a Soviet light-heavyweight wrestler from Georgia. He won a silver medal in the Greco-Roman light-heavyweight division at the 1952 Summer Olympics.Chikhladze became interested in wrestling in 1920, and started training in a club in 1930, when he moved from Kutaisi to Tbilisi. In 1935 he moved to Moscow and placed second at the Soviet championships; he won the championships in 1936 and finished third in 1937 and 1941. During World War II he was wounded in action near Kaluga in late 1941. In March 1942 he was released from hospital and discharged with honors from the army. He then collected three more Soviet wrestling titles in 1946, 1949 and 1950, and was selected for the 1952 Olympics, despite being 40 years old. Chikhladze won a silver medal, losing the final to Kelpo Gröndahl 1:2, and retired from competitions. Later he coached wrestlers in his native Georgia.

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John Walter da Silva, QSM, or John Silva (born in Pukekohe on 11 June 1934) is a former New Zealand wrestler and boxer. He represented New Zealand in wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and at the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. In 1955 he held both the New Zealand Heavyweight Wrestling title and the Auckland Heavyweight Boxing title.

Forlì, Italy

Lila Ram Sangwan (30 November 1930 – 11 October 2003) was an Indian wrestler from Bhiwani district of Haryana, who was the first Indian to win a gold medal in the Commonwealth Games. He won gold medal in the heavyweight (100 kg) category in the 1958 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. Lila Ram competed in the freestyle wrestling in heavyweight and super heavyweight categories at the national as well as international level.

Mohammad Paziraei (Persian: محمد پذیرایی‎‎, August 4, 1929, Baku, Azerbaijan SSR – March 9, 2002, Tehran, Iran) was an Iranian wrestler, who was born in Baku, Azerbaijan SSR but raised in Ardabil, Iran. He won a bronze medal in the Flyweight division at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome.

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Johannes Kotkas (3 February 1915 – 8 May 1998) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Estonia who won a gold medal at the 1952 Olympics. He held the European title in 1938, 1939 and 1947 and placed second at the 1953 world championships.

Müzahir Sille (21 September 1931 – 17 May 2016) was a Turkish Olympic champion sports wrestler in the Featherweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.Born in Istanbul, he began 1949 sports wrestling in the "Istanbul Güreş Ihtisas Kulübü", a club specialized in wrestling.

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Vilho Lennart "Lenni" Viitala (8 November 1921 – 24 February 1966) was a Finnish flyweight wrestler who won gold medals in freestyle wrestling at the 1946 European Championships and 1948 Olympics. Domestically Viitala won five freestyle (1946–49, 1956) and one Greco-Roman title (1953). He was a carpenter by profession.

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Mitsuo Ikeda (池田 三男, Ikeda Mitsuo, 14 March 1935 – 12 September 2002) was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics. Later he worked as a wrestling coach.

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Stanley John Bissell (26 October 1906 – January 1999) was an English freestyle and Greco-Roman sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1948 Summer Olympics.In 1948 he competed in the Greco-Roman middleweight tournament.At the 1930 Empire Games he won the silver medal in the freestyle middleweight class. Four years later he won again the silver medal in the freestyle middleweight category at the 1934 Empire Games.

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Vladimir Maneyev (5 February 1932 – 8 January 1985) was a Russian wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Mahmoud Hassan (December 15, 1919 – September 10, 1998) was an Egyptian Greco-Roman Bantamweight wrestler. He competed for Egypt in the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning a silver medal behind Kurt Pettersén of Sweden and Halil Kaya of Turkey.

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August Englas (Russian: Аугуст Петрович Энглас; born January 15, 1925) is an Estonian former wrestler who competed for the Soviet Union.Englas was born in Otepää. In the 1952 Summer Olympics, after defeating Adil Atan, Shirang Vithoba Jadav and Max Leichter, and losing against Henry Wittenberg and Viking Palm, he took fourth place. He won the gold medal at the 1953 and 1954 World Championship.

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Gazanfer Bilge (July 23, 1924 – April 20, 2008) was a Turkish sports wrestler of Circassian descent who won the gold medal in the Featherweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1948 Olympics.

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Vakhtang Balavadze (born 20 November 1927) is a Georgian former wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics and in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Adelmo Bulgarelli (23 March 1932 – 20 July 1984) was a heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He competed in the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1956. He also won two medals at the Mediterranean Games in 1955 and 1963 and 11 national titles.

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Six Sigma is a set of techniques and tools for process improvement. It was introduced by engineer Bill Smith while working at Motorola in 1986. Jack Welch made it central to his business strategy at General Electric in 1995. Today, it is used in many industrial sectors.Six Sigma seeks to improve the quality of the output of a process by identifying and removing the causes of defects and minimizing variability in manufacturing and business processes. It uses a set of quality management methods, mainly empirical, statistical methods, and creates a special infrastructure of people within the organization, who are experts in these methods. Each Six Sigma project carried out within an organization follows a defined sequence of steps and has specific value targets, for example: reduce process cycle time, reduce pollution, reduce costs, increase customer satisfaction, and increase profits.The term Six Sigma (capitalized because it was written that way when registered as a Motorola trademark on December 28, 1993) originated from terminology associated with statistical modeling of manufacturing processes. The maturity of a manufacturing process can be described by a sigma rating indicating its yield or the percentage of defect-free products it creates. A six sigma process is one in which 99.99966% of all opportunities to produce some feature of a part are statistically expected to be free of defects (3.4 defective features per million opportunities). Motorola set a goal of "six sigma" for all of its manufacturing operations, and this goal became a by-word for the management and engineering practices used to achieve it.

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Nikolay Nikolayevich Solovyov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Соловьёв, 12 July 1931 – 15 November 2007) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.Solovyov first competed in shooting and fencing, placing sixth in the Soviet foil championships. He then changed to wrestling and won the Soviet title in 1955 and 1959, placing second in 1958 and third in 1954. He graduated from an institute of physical education, and after retiring from competitions trained the Soviet wrestling team. He also served as an international referee and as vice-president of the Saint Petersburg wrestling federation.

Henrik Hansen (26 May 1920 – 23 August 2010) was a Danish sport wrestler. He was born in Frederiksværk. He won a bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, welterweight class, at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London.

Abbas Zandi (Persian: عباس زندی‎‎; June 3, 1930 in Tehran) is an Iranian retired Bastani practitioner, Freestyle Wrestler, national champion, and coach. Zandi has competed in three Olympic games including 1948 London, 1952 Helsinki and 1956 Melbourne.

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Ahmet Kireççi (aka Ahmet Mersinli, 27 October 1914 in Mersin – 17 August 1979 in Mersin, Turkey), was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the Olympic medal twice, the bronze medal in the Middleweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1936 Olympics and the gold medal in the Heavyweight class of Men's Greco-Roman category at the 1948 Olympics.Born in the southern city of Mersin, he began first boxing and then continued in athletics. He switched over to wrestling and took part in a yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) competition in Tarsus, where he became champion.Ahmet Kireççi was sent to Istanbul to join the Wrestling Club of Kumkapı. In 1931, he was admitted to the national team, of which he was a member 17 years long. With 18 years of age, he became Balkan champion, a title he repeated twice more. With his bronze medal gathered at the 1936 Berlin Olympics, he became the first Turkish wrestler to win an Olympic medal in the Freestyle and to win an Olympic medal in the both wrestling styles.Following President İsmet İnönü's suggestion at a reception after his return, Ahmet Kireççi accepted to change his family name officially to Mersinli, which was his nickname.He died on 17 August 1979 following a traffic accident in his hometown. A statue of him erected in a corner near the harbour of Mersin commemorates the successful and popular wrestler.

James Michael "Jim" Armstrong (14 July 1917 – 8 July 1981) was an Australian sport wrestler and rugby league player. He was born in Albury, New South Wales, and worked as a police officer.Armstrong was selected to play for Australia against Great Britain as a front row forward in the third and deciding Ashes test in 1946, becoming Kangaroo No. 233.

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Alimbeg Bestayev (15 August 1936 – 1988) was a Russian wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was born in Tskhinvali.

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Lila Ram Sangwan

(Melano)

Ignazio Fabra (25 April 1930 – 13 April 2008) is a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He won a world title in 1955 and finished second at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and 1962 and 1963 world championships. He placed fourth-fifth at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.Fabra was deaf since birth and communicated by signs. He was winning the 1952 Olympic final against Boris Gurevich, but then misinterpreted a gesture of his coach, went into an attack, and got caught up in a counter-attack. After winning the 1955 world title he was a heavy favorite at the 1956 games, but lost in the final to Nikolay Solovyov due to a knee injury. Fabra retired in the late 1960s and became a wrestling coach. He led the national wrestling team at the 1969 World Games of the Deaf and prepared the 1972 Olympic medalist Giuseppe Bognanni.

Ercole Gallegati (21 November 1911 – 19 August 1990) was an Italian wrestler. He won bronze medals in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1932 and 1948 Olympics and 1934 European Championships. He also competed in the 1936 Olympics, both in freestyle and Greco-Roman wrestling, and at the 1952 Olympics. Domestically he won 20 Italian titles in Greco-Roman and 11 in freestyle wrestling between 1931 and 1956.

Melbourne, Australia

Iskra Tbilisi

Vaajakoski, Finland

Adi
Alex
Frisco, Texas, U.S.
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David Tsimakuridze (March 29, 1925, Poti, Georgian SSR – May 9, 2006) is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling.He was born in Poti and died in Tbilisi.

Tamiji Sato (佐藤 多美治, Sato Tamiji, born December 14, 1939) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1960 Olympics and 1961 World Championships in the 62 kg division and finished fourth on both occasions.

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Raymond "Ray" Cazaux (3 July 1917 – September 1999) was an English freestyle sport wrestler who competed for Great Britain in the 1936 Summer Olympics and in the 1948 Summer Olympics.In 1936 he competed in the freestyle bantamweight tournament.Twelve years later he finished fifth in the freestyle bantamweight competition at the 1948 Olympics.At the 1938 Empire Games he won the bronze medal in the freestyle bantamweight class.

Yutaka Kaneko (born 21 April 1933) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Mithat Bayrak (3 March 1929 – 20 April 2014) was a Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won two gold medals in the Welterweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics.Born on 3 March 1929 in Adapazarı of Sakarya Province, he began 1948 the wrestling sport in Sakarya Güneş Spor club. Following his admission to the national team, he was trained by the renowned wrestlers Gazanfer Bilge, Mehmet Oktav, Hüseyin Erkmen and Celal Atik. Mithat Bayrak won the gold medal twice for Turkey at the Olympic Games.He ceased his international career after the 1960 Olympics and emigrated to Germany, where he joined the wrestling sports club KSV Witten 07. There, he wrestled almost 20 years more and served later also as trainer.After the end of his career, he ran a restaurant in Witten, Germany.

Stewart

Bruno Simma

Kagoshima Kūkō

Huddinge BK

Mattocks
Asprilla

Ronald McKenzie

Società Sportiva Calvaruso Palermo

Hollingshead
Primary Alt.

Nour Ullah Noor (June 8, 1944) is a retired Afghanistan Greco-Roman wrestler, who competed at the 1964 Summer Olympic Games in the bantamweight events.

Yoshikatsu Yoshida and Chang Chang-sun in the flyweight final at the 1964 Olympics

Chou Y.H., Liu 8
Hornsby, Strings 10

MLS 21 / Cascadia Cup 3

Günther Maritschnigg (7 November 1933 – 22 January 2013) was a German former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was born in Bochum.

POR

Kazuo Abe (born 7 April 1935) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Majority Owner & President

Bhriguvanshi, Amj. Singh 6

Idowu
Valentin

Müller at the 1948 Olympics

Vancouver, BC, Canada

Pethani 17

Zardes

Endo 7
Togashi 6

Harris
Villa

Tallinn, Estonia

Melano
Portland, Oregon, U.S.

Gothic architecture in Castilla-La Mancha

Takashi Nagai (born 19 October 1936) is a Japanese former wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics.

MLS 7

Boris Maksovich Gurevich (Russian: Борис Максимович Гуревич; 23 March 1931 – 10 January 1995) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from the Soviet Union. He won gold medals at the 1952 Olympics and 1953 and 1958 world championships.Gurevich first trained in gymnastics and took up wrestling only in 1948. He won the Soviet wrestling titles in 1950 and 1955, placing second in 1952, 1959 and 1960 and third in 1963.

Mount Douglas (SENĆOŦEN: pq̕áls or PKOLS) is a prominent, 225 m (738 ft) hill in Greater Victoria, British Columbia. It is located on the ancestral lands of the Saanich and Songhees people.

Garibaldo Nizzola at the 1960 Olympics

Gilberto

Mehmet Çoban (1905–1969), aka Koç Çoban Mehmet, was a Turkish Olympian wrestler in the heavyweight division of Greco-Roman style.He was born 1905 in Balıkesir, Ottoman Empire. A shepherd, he was discovered by the local military commander Hikmet Pasha during a Turkish traditional sport yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) match, and was sent to Istanbul to join "İstanbul Güreş İhtisas Kulübü", a renowned club specialized in wrestling.

Trollhättan, Sweden

Loek Alflen (29 August 1933 – 17 August 2015) was a Dutch wrestler, he was Dutch national champion in the flyweight category between 1951 and 1970. He competed at the 1960 Olympics.Alflen was born in Utrecht, he was raised in a family with a total of thirteen children. As a six-year-old he became a member of the wrestling club De Halter, eventually all his seven brothers also joined. Five of the brothers eventually became national champions. Between 1951 and 1970 Alflen was the Dutch national champion in the flyweight category. He was 1.56 meters tall. He missed the 1956 Summer Olympics due to a Dutch boycott, which was in place due to the Soviet Union's role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. He finished in thirteenth position in his division during the wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics.Loek Alfen died after a prolonged illness on 17 August 2015, aged 81. Rob Alflen is his son.

Örgryte IS

Strings 22

The Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpots Rocks or simply The Rocks, are rock formations caused by tidal erosion in The Hopewell Rocks Ocean Tidal Exploration Site in New Brunswick. They stand 40–70 feet tall.They are located on the shores of the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy at Hopewell Cape near Moncton. Due to the extreme tidal range of the Bay of Fundy, the base of the formations are covered in water twice a day.

Rodniki, Ivanovo Oblast, Russia

Kagoshima Airport

MLS 17

Rauno Leonard Mäkinen (22 January 1931 – 9 September 2010) was a Finnish featherweight wrestler. He started as a freestyle wrestler, winning four consecutive national titles in 1952–55 and finishing sixth at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He then changed to Greco-Roman wrestling and won a national title and an Olympic gold medal in 1956. His further career was hampered by injuries.

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Video analyst/Assistant Coach

Wu C.C. 3

Lombardi at the 1948 Olympics

Portland Timbers
Houston, Texas, U.S.

Mehmet Nuri Boytorun (1908 – November 28, 1988) was a Turkish Olympian sport wrestler, trainer and technical director. He competed in the Middleweight division of Greco-Roman category at the Summer Olympics 1928 and 1936.He was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire. He was the Balkan champion four times in a row. Nuri Boytorun was Turkey's flag bearer at the 1936 Summer Olympics.After retiring from the active sports, he served as the trainer of the Turkish national team. Nuri Boytorun instructed wrestlers like Yaşar Doğu, Celal Atik, Gazanfer Bilge and Ahmet Kireççi, among others. He was technical director of the national team, which participated at the Olympics in 1948, 1952 and 1956.Accepting an offer, he emigrated to Italy, and served as the technical director of the Italian national Greco-Roman wrestling team.Nuri Boytorun died on November 28, 1988. He was succeeded by his wife Süheyla and two sons Haluk and Hamdi.

Georgi Skhirtladze (Georgian: გიორგი სხირტლაძე ; 9 November 1932 – 25 March 2008) was a wrestler from Georgia. He was Olympic silver medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960 and bronze medalist in 1956, competing for the Soviet Union. He won a gold medal at the 1959 World Wrestling Championships.

Tucson, Arizona, U.S.

FIAT Torino

DJK Würzburg

Sacramento State Hornets

UES

Petko Sirakov (Bulgarian: Петко Сираков) (16 February 1929 – 8 April 1996) was a Bulgarian wrestler who competed in the 1956 Summer Olympics.

Ignazio Fabra (25 April 1930 – 13 April 2008) is a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He won a world title in 1955 and finished second at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and 1962 and 1963 world championships. He placed fourth-fifth at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.Fabra was deaf since birth and communicated by signs. He was winning the 1952 Olympic final against Boris Gurevich, but then misinterpreted a gesture of his coach, went into an attack, and got caught up in a counter-attack.

Russell Dwayne Mark Leverock

Yamagata, Japan

Cheshire

Lokomotiv Kyiv

nowitdi01

Oleg Nikolayevich Karavayev (Russian: Олег Николаевич Караваев, 20 May 1936 – 23 August 1978) was a Soviet bantamweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the world title in 1958 and 1961 and an Olympic gold medal in 1960.Karavayev took up wrestling aged 16 and quickly became one of the most technically gifted Soviet wrestlers. Between 1956 and 1962 he rarely lost a bout, and won the Soviet title every year except for 1961. In 1964 he failed to qualify for the Tokyo Olympics, and retired to become a wrestling coach, heading the Belorussian team through the late 1960s. From 1971 until his death he worked at his native sports society Burevestnik. In retirement he developed an alcoholism problem, which led to his death at the age 42. Since 1992, an annual wrestling tournament has been held in his honor in his native Minsk.

Leo Ilmo Honkala (8 January 1933 – 17 May 2015) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland who won a bronze medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In the following several years he suffered several shoulder injuries, and retired from competitions in 1956 after winning his only national title. In retirement he first worked as a policeman in Finland, but in the late 1960s immigrated to Sweden, and in 1974–85 trained the Swedish wrestling team. He also competed in powerlifting, but at the 2006 European Masters Championships failed a drug test for EPO and was banned for life.

Strings 16

Istanbul, Turkey

Camara
MLS 6

Dzeneladze at the 1956 Olympics

Greco-Roman wrestling

MLS

Eino Mauno Virtanen (19 August 1908 in Uskela – 3 December 1980 in Helsinki) was a Finnish wrestler who took part in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin and 1948 Games in London.Virtanen won an Olympic bronze in wrestling at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He came in third in the welterweight class up to 72.0 kg, in Greco-Roman style, behind Rudolf Svedberg from Sweden and Fritz Schäfer from Germany.Virtanen became European champion in wrestling in 1946 in Stockholm.

Savkuz Dzaboyevich Dzarasov (Russian: Савкуз Дзабоевич Дзарасов ; 1930 – 1990) was a Russian wrestler. He was Olympic bronze medalist in Freestyle wrestling in 1960, competing for the Soviet Union. He won a bronze medal at the 1959 World Wrestling Championships.

Aliyar Aghayev

Bra Duro

Lee S.H., Byun K.H. 13

Secondary

BK Balder, Lund

Baumann at the 1948 Olympics

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Chief Operating Officer
MLS 16

Rauno Leonard Mäkinen (22 January 1931 – 9 September 2010) was a Finnish featherweight wrestler. He started as a freestyle wrestler, winning four consecutive national titles in 1952–55 and finishing sixth at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He then changed to Greco-Roman wrestling and won a national title and an Olympic gold medal in 1956. His further career was hampered by injuries. In 1960 he won one more national title, but withdrew from the 1960 Olympics after two bouts and retired from competitions.Mäkinen followed his father Väinö, who competed internationally in freestyle wrestling and founded the Tampereen Paini-Miehet wrestling club. Besides wrestling Mäkinen played association football at the national level for Ilves-Kissat. Originally a construction engineer, after retiring from competitions he became a policeman and worked in Tampere, Jyväskylä and Vaajakoski until retiring in 1974 due to an illness. He remained involved in wrestling as a referee, and in this function attended the 1962 and 1965 World Championships and 1968 Olympic Games. While living in Tampere, he also coached young wrestlers and football players and headed the Tampereen Paini-Miehet club.In 1950 Mäkinen married Raili Kymäläisen. They had five children: Arja (b. 1951), Pirjo (b. 1952), Reijo (b. 1954), Marjo (b. 1960) and Merja (b. 1961).

Ivar Sven Lennart "Kovan" Sjölin (28 September 1918 – 10 September 1992) was a Swedish freestyle wrestler who won a silver medal in the featherweight division at the 1948 Olympics.

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Mohammad Ebrahim Seifpour Saadabadi (Persian: محمد ابراهیم سیف پور سعد آبادی‎‎, born March 3, 1938 in Tehran) also known as Ebrahim Seifpour, was an Iranian Freestyle wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics. He was a competitor in the Flyweight division, where he won a bronze medal. He also won bronze at the 1964 Summer Olympics, in the Featherweight division.

MLS 32
Head Coach
Liam Ridgewell(c)
Grabavoy

Brereton Green, Brereton, Cheshire, England

Peay

Retired

Oulun Pyrintö

Müzahir Sille

Shohachi Ishii (石井庄八, Ishii Shōhachi, September 20, 1926 – January 4, 1980) was a Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was the first Japanese gold medalist after World War II, the only Japanese gold medalist at the 1952 Olympics, and the only Japanese medalist in wrestling at the 1952 Olympics.Ishii took wrestling because there was no judo club around. He died of kidney cancer, aged 53.

Khalil Taha (born 5 June 1932) is a retired Lebanese wrestler.At the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria Egypt, Taha won the silver medal in the 73 kg Greco-Roman wrestlingAt the 1952 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman Welterweight category.

Bruno Simma (born March 29, 1941 in Quierschied, Germany), is a German jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 2003 until 2012.He also currently serves as an affiliated overseas faculty member of the University of Michigan Law School, teaching classes in Ann Arbor.Before being elected to the Court, Simma had served on the United Nations International Law Commission since 1996. From 1995 to 1997, he served as dean of the University of Munich Faculty of Law. Prior to returning to his native Germany, he served as a lecturer at the Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands, where he also served as director of studies in 1976 and 1982, and as visiting professor at the University of Michigan Law School during 1995. From 1987 to 1996, he served as a member of the United Nations Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights. From 1987 to 1992, he served as a Professor of Law at the University of Michigan Law School, and as a visiting professor in 1986. From 1984 to 1985, he served as a visiting professor at the University of Siena in Italy. He served as a lecturer for International Law for the German Federal Foreign Ministry's Training Centre for Junior Diplomats. He received doctorate honoris causa from the University of Macerata, Italy in 2006. He is member of the advisory board of the Goettingen Journal of International Law.Simma's term on the court expired on 5 February 2012; he was not a candidate for re-election.

Abdel Ahmed Al-Rashid (born December 27, 1927) is an Egyptian wrestler.

Kenneth "Ken" Alan Richmond (10 July 1926 – 3 August 2006) was an English heavyweight wrestler. Richmond was born in London, his father abandoned the family when Richmond was 3. Before he got into freestyle wrestling, he was a whale ship crewman. At 6'5" and 265 lbs, he won a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics, as well as a bronze medal at the 1950 British Empire Games, and a gold medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games.

MLS 12
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Nguyen

Kang S.J. 6

Ferdinand Schmitz (born October 14, 1919) is a former German wrestler who competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics. In Helsinki he participated in both the freestyle and Greco-Roman bantamweight competitions, eventually withdrawing from the former and finishing sixth in the latter. He had two podium results at the European Championships, placing third in 56 kg Greco-Roman event in 1938 and second in the 61-kg Greco-Roman event in 1939. He was born in Cologne and was a member of ESV Olympia Köln.

Orlando, Florida, U.S.

Yaşar Doğu (1913 - 8 January 1961), was a renowned Turkish World and Olympic champion sports wrestler of Circassian descent in Greco-Roman and Freestyle.He was born in the village Karlı of Kavak district in Samsun province to a family of Circassian origin. He began wrestling at his age of 15 in yağlı güreş (oil wrestling) and continued in this folk sports until he entered the military service. His sports wrestling career started 1936 in Ankara as he was discovered by the sports wrestler Celal Atik.Yaşar Doğu was admitted to the national team in 1939. He participated at the European Championships held that year in Oslo, Norway and became silver medalist in Greko-Roman style, his only participation at any international competition missing the gold medal. He became Balkan, European and World champion besides Olympic gold medalist. Yaşar Doğu wrestled 47 times in the national team between 1939 and 1951, of which only one he lost. 33 of his matches he won by near-fall. All his 46 winning matches lasted 372 minutes in total, whereas the normal duration should be 690 minutes. After retiring from the active sports, he served as the trainer of the national team.He married to Hayriye on 15 October 1937. Yaşar Doğu gave the name Gazanfer to one of his sons in admiration to his teammate Gazanfer Bilge. His son Gazanfer Doğu was educated in the US, and became a lecturer of physical education and sports at Abant Izzet Baysal University in Bolu.Yaşar Doğu suffered a heart attack during the 1955 championships held in Sweden, where he was as the trainer of Turkey's wrestling team. He died on 8 January 1961 in Ankara following a second heart attack.

Chará

olympic medal

Kaare Oliver Larsen (10 October 1914 – 26 April 1980) was a Norwegian sport wrestler who competed in the 1948 Summer Olympics.He was born in Østre Aker, and represented the sports club SK av 1909. He participated in the middleweight class in wrestling at the 1948 Summer Olympics, where he finished fifth overall. He attributed his success partially to the rivalry he had with Svetskan born Ulrich Ulrichson, which lasted for several decades.

April 1970

Bologna, Italy

Secretary general of theGerman Football Association

Trevor Morgan

Liu 18

Jan 2016
Bridgeview, Illinois, U.S.

Pethani 23

EastEnders

Jahn

Vladimir Sinyavsky

Palermo, Italy

Dynamo Baku

Nasuh Akar (10 May 1925 – 18 May 1984) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal in the Bantamweight class of Men's Freestyle category at the 1948 Olympics.He was born in the village Yiğitler (today Sorsavuş) of Boğazlıyan district of Yozgat Province. Following his gold medal win at the 1948 London Olympics, Nasuh Akar became European and World champion. In 1952, he retired from active wrestling and served then as trainer.He died on 18 May 1984. His wife Ayşe Akar succeeded him. A training sports hall in Eskişehir, opened in 1994, is named after Nasuh Akar.

Passengers

Täby, Stockholm, Sweden

Keane
Jewsbury

Gikatilla, Joseph b. Abraham

Artyom Sarkisovich Teryan (Russian: Артём Саркисович Терян, 5 March 1930 – April 1970) was a Soviet Greco-Roman wrestler of Armenian descent.

Sluggo

Ghulam Mohiddin Gunga (20 June 1934, in Kabul). He is a former Afghanistan wrestler, who competed at the 1960 Summer Olympic Games in the light-heavyweight freestyle event.

Chikhladze va. Kelpo Gröndahl in the 1952 Olympic final

Dursun Ali Eğribaş (1933 – August 2014) was a Turkish wrestler. He won a bronze medal in flyweight at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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Crites Field

MLS 18

Kumagae 17

http://www.cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/36/36037/36037.html CricketArchive

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Helsinki, Finland

Gilberto Gramellini (born 17 November 1930) is a retired Italian wrestler. He competed in the Greco-Roman bantamweight division at the 1960 Olympics and finished in ninth place.

McNamara

Chen Y.C. 4

Genoa, Italy

Brereton Hall

Chen S.N. 5

Kodijärve, Estonia

Yaşar Erkan (30 April 1911 in Erzincan – 18 May 1986) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who became first Olympic gold medalist for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling.Son of a renowned wrestler for yağlı güreş (oil wrestling), he moved with his family from their village İspidi in the Refahiye district of Erzincan Province to Istanbul at 4 years of age. In 1933, he was admitted to the national team and won the Balkan Championship the same year. Yaşar Erkan repeated his title wins in the following two years 1934 and 1935. In 1936, he became the first ever Turkish sportsman to win a gold medal at the Olympics. Before retiring in 1940, he won the Balkan Championship once again in 1937 in İzmir.

Burevestnik Tbilisi

Asahikawa, Hokkaido, Japan

MLS 1
Zimmerman
Shipp

Kenneth "Ken" Alan Richmond (10 July 1926 – 3 August 2006) was an English heavyweight wrestler. Richmond was born in London, his father abandoned the family when Richmond was 3. Before he got into freestyle wrestling, he was a whale ship crewman. At 6'5" and 265 lbs, he won a bronze medal at the 1952 Olympics, as well as a bronze medal at the 1950 British Empire Games, and a gold medal at the 1954 British Empire and Commonwealth Games. He stayed fit enough into his later years to win medals for rollerblading and windsurfing in his 60s.Though he appeared as the wrestler Nikolas in Jules Dassin's film noir, Night and the City (1950), Richmond was perhaps most recognizable as the shirtless gongman banging the enormous gong preceding the opening credits for films produced or distributed by the Rank Organisation. He was the fourth - and last - actor to take the job, as the Rank studio closed in 1980. He was also one of Jehovah’s Witnesses for most of his life, being jailed as a conscientious objector during World War II. In later life, he was a volunteer minister for his church.He died at age 80 in his home in Christchurch, England (Richmond’s wife, Valentina, died in 1996). According to the BBC, before he died, he had revealed to friends that the gong seen in the Rank Organisation's opening never rang as it was a papier-mâché stage prop and he never actually struck it with any force, joking "If you hit that gong, you would have gone straight through.”

Togashi 18

Helgesta, Sweden

Graham 3

Kokkola, Finland
Vaasan Toverit

Ronald McKenzie (tennis)

Foxboro, Massachusetts, U.S.

Shozo Sasahara (笹原 正三, Sasahara Shōzō, born July 28, 1929) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler who won a world title in 1954 and an Olympics gold medal in 1956. He was the flag bearer for Japan at the 1956 Games.During his career Sasahara won approximately 200 bouts. After retiring from competitions he worked as a national coach. His trainees included Osamu Watanabe.Sasahara is credited with designing "bound tennis" in 1980, which is a form of tennis played on a small-sized court.

Burevestnik Moscow

Gürdan, Boğazlıyan, Turkey

MLS 20

Yoshikatsu Yoshida at the 1964 Olympics

Hsinchuang Gymnasium, New Taipei City

Nabiollah "Nabi" Sorouri (Persian: نبى الله سرورى‎‎; born 1933 in Baku – deceased 2002 Tehran ) was an Iranian wrestler who became a member of Iran senior national Wrestling team in 1953 and was a member until 1960. Sorouri competed at the 1956 Summer Olympics, where he managed to obtain fourth place in the 73 kg division. He won the gold medal in the 79 kg division of Freestyle wrestling at the 1957 World Wrestling Championships in Istanbul.

Heo I.Y., Kim J.K., Lee S.H. 11
Chang Y.A., Chen Y.C. 3

COL

Jämsänkosken Kiri

Borås BK

Emam-Ali Habibi Goudarzi (Persian: امامعلی حبیبی گودرزی‎‎, born May 13, 1931, in Babol ,Darzikola-e-Akhundi, a village 3 km from Babol, Mazandaran, Iran) is an Iranian wrestler who competed in Freestyle at the 1956 Summer Olympics.Habibi also took 4th at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, losing one of his matches by fall to Douglas Blubaugh of the United States. There is a famous poster (among wrestlers) of Habibi being pinned by Blubaugh, because he was so well-respected and this was a major upset at the time. Habibi now resides in Babol , Mazandaran. His nickname was "The Tiger of Mazandaran" (Persian: ببر مازندران). He is listed in the FILA wrestling hall of fame.

MLS 28

Shinoyama 6

Müzahir Sille (21 September 1931 – 17 May 2016) was a Turkish Olympic champion sports wrestler in the Featherweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Greco-Roman wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.Born in Istanbul, he began 1949 sports wrestling in the "Istanbul Güreş Ihtisas Kulübü", a club specialized in wrestling. Competing in Greco-Roman style, Müzahir Sille became gold medalist in wrestling at the 1960 Summer Olympics after he won the silver medal twice at World championships and ranked 4th at the 1956 Summer Olympics.He continued his wrestling career from 1961 on in the wrestling club KSV Witten 07 in Germany along with his teammate Mithat Bayrak, where he became regional champion. After his wrestling career ended, he returned to Istanbul to start several non-profit organizations mainly targeted towards helping the homeless. To this day he resides in Istanbul with his wife, Dinani Sille.

Bhriguvanshi, Amj. Singh 16

İsmet Atlı (1931 – 4 April 2014) was a Turkish Olympic medalist sports wrestler in the Light heavyweight class and a trainer. He won the gold medal in Men's Freestyle wrestling at the 1960 Olympics.He was born 1931 in Çukurören village of Kozan district in Adana Province of southern Turkey.

Bruno Simma (born March 29, 1941 in Quierschied, Germany), is a German jurist who served as a judge on the International Court of Justice from 2003 until 2012.He also currently serves as an affiliated overseas faculty member of the University of Michigan Law School, teaching classes in Ann Arbor.Before being elected to the Court, Simma had served on the United Nations International Law Commission since 1996. From 1995 to 1997, he served as dean of the University of Munich Faculty of Law.

Torabi, Yakhchali 3
Bhriguvanshi 4

Manneh
Barrett

Gerry Martina was a member of the 1956 and 1960 Irish Olympic wrestling teams, finishing a notable 4th in the Men's Light-Heavyweight Freestyle category in 1956 in Melbourne, Australia. Martina also won the British Senior male Light-Heavyweight Freestyle championship in 1956. Gerry died in 1990.He trained Drogheda United in the 1950s and the League of Ireland XI team in the 1960s.

Johannes Kotkas in 1952

Gilberto Gramellini vs Bernard Knitter at the 1960 Olympics

El-Gammal 21

Skinnskatteberg, Sweden

Kah
MLS 26 / Cascadia Cup 4

Hornsby 10

Kagoshima Airport Building Co., Ltd.

Saunders
Wenger

Ronald McKenzie is a New Zealand professional male tennis player who reached the final of ATP Auckland Open in 1960, where he lost to Roy Emerson 6–3, 6–1, 6–1.

Celal Atik (1920 – 27 April 1979) was a Turkish wrestler and coach. He competed both in Greco-Roman and freestyle wrestling, but had his best achievements in the freestyle, winning gold medals at the 1948 Olympics, 1951 World and 1946 and 1949 European championships.He was born in the village of Gürdan in the Boğazlıyan district of Yozgat Province, Turkey.

Saint Petersburg, Russia

Washington, District of Columbia, U.S.

Mikuláš Athanasov (1930 – 2005) was a Czechoslovak wrestler. He was born in Košice. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1952.

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Bingham

Nikolay Nikolayevich Solovyov (Russian: Николай Николаевич Соловьёв, 12 July 1931 – 15 November 2007) was a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.Solovyov first competed in shooting and fencing, placing sixth in the Soviet foil championships. He then changed to wrestling and won the Soviet title in 1955 and 1959, placing second in 1958 and third in 1954.

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Hasan Güngör (5 July 1934 – 13 October 2011) was a middleweight Turkish wrestler (79 kg before 1961, 87 kg after 1961) and a wrestling coach. He won a gold medal at the 1960 Olympics and a silver medal at the 1964 Olympics, as well as multiple medals at the World, European and Balkan championships. After retiring from competitions in 1967, Güngör worked for more than 20 years as a coach of the junior and senior national teams. Güngör was married and had three children.

Kangasala, Finland

Mustafa Dağıstanlı (11 April 1931, Çarşamba, Turkey), is a former Turkish sports wrestler, who won the gold medal twice in the Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1956 Olympics and 1960 Olympics and was three times World champion.Born on 11 April 1931 in the village Söğütpınar in Çarşamba district of Samsun Province, he began wrestling in his age of 18. Mustafa Dağıstanlı was admitted 1958 to the national team. He is with 70 times the most capped Turkish wrestler and also Turkey's internationally most podium winning wrestler. He won World championship three times besides his two gold medal wins at the Olympics.Following his retirement, he entered politics and served between 1973 and 1980 as deputy of his hometown Samsun from the Justice Party. Recently, Mustafa Dağıstanlı owns an overland coach business in Ankara bearing his family name.He is married with seven children and lives currently in Ankara.

Mandola village, Bhiwani district, Haryana

JP-46

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Cascadia Cup 1 / MLS 10
Cascadia Cup 6 / MLS 34
Brett

Togashi 4

Training Ground
MLS 5

n/a

Borås, Sweden

MLS 29
Ramos
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Accam
Cascadia Cup 4 / MLS 26

Liu 21

Kansas City, Kansas, U.S.

Ken Richmond

შალვა ჩიხლაძე

Florveus 11

Akindele

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Hazan Gemici (15 June 1927 – 25 June 2001) was a Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won the gold medal in the flyweight class of men's freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Olympics.He was born in Giresun and died in İzmit, Kocaeli Province of Turkey.Gemici began wrestling 1949 in İzmit (Kocaeli). He won the gold medal at the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, Egypt, before he became Olympic gold medalist in Helsinki, Finland the next year. After retiring from the active sports in 1955, he served as a trainer in his hometown İzmit and later in Romania.Hasan Gemici died on 25 June 2001 at his home in Izmit following chronic renal failure. He was succeeded by his wife Nezahat Gemici and five children. A sports hall in İzmit is named after him.

Vladimir Ivanovich Synyavsky (Ukrainian: Володимир Іванович Синявський; 18 February 1932 – 27 December 2012) was a lightweight freestyle wrestler from Ukraine who won a world title in 1959 and placed second at the 1960 Olympics and 1961 World Championships.

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Bror Viking Palm (13 October 1923 – 19 January 2009) was a Swedish light-heavyweight freestyle wrestler. He competed at the 1952, 1956 and 1960 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1952, finishing fourth in 1960. In 1960 his bronze medal match against Anatoly Albul ended in a draw, but Albul had a lower body weight. Palm won two medals at the world championships, in 1951 and 1954.Palm was born to a farmer and started training in wrestling aged 16, together with his elder brother Evert. He had a long wrestling career and reached the final of his last national championships aged 47. He was a firefighter by profession, but in 1972 began working as a policeman in Solna.

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The Hopewell Rocks, also called the Flowerpots Rocks or simply The Rocks, are rock formations caused by tidal erosion in The Hopewell Rocks Ocean Tidal Exploration Site in New Brunswick. They stand 40–70 feet tall.They are located on the shores of the upper reaches of the Bay of Fundy at Hopewell Cape near Moncton. Due to the extreme tidal range of the Bay of Fundy, the base of the formations are covered in water twice a day. However, it is possible to view the formations from ground level at low tide.The formations consist of dark sedimentary conglomerate and sandstone rock. The large volume of water flowing in to and out of the Bay of Fundy modifies the landscape surrounding it. After the retreat of the glaciers in the region following the last ice age, surface water filtering through cracks in the cliff has eroded and separated the formations from the rest of the cliff face. Meanwhile, advancing and retreating tides and the associated waves have eroded the base of the rocks at a faster rate than the tops, resulting in their unusual shapes.The vast sediment planes in the basin in Fundy supports a variety of biological productivity. Various shorebirds are often seen flocking to nest and feed in the area. Visitors are advised to stay for a full tidal cycle to get a full appreciation of the tides and formations. Although the tides vary from day to day, the high tide can be as high as 16 metres (52 ft) giving the Hopewell Rocks one of the highest average tides in the world.On March 14, 2016, a part of one of the Hopewell Rocks, Elephant Rock, collapsed. Park officials said approximately 100 to 200 tonnes of rock fell to the ground. "Sometime after the tide went out this morning, a significant piece of Elephant Rock calved off, closing off a whole section or a whole passageway where we used to walk," said Kevin Snair, supervisor of interpretive services at the Hopewell Rocks.

Mehmet Oktav (1917 in Istanbul, Turkey – 1996) was a Turkish sports wrestler, who became Olympic gold medalist for Turkey in the Featherweight class of Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling in 1948.He began his sports career as a football player in 1942, switched over, however, to wrestling afterwards. He won the gold medal in the 1948 Olympics in 62 kg class as the second Turkish wrestler after Yaşar Erkan. Before retiring in 1953, he competed 13 times in the national team.

Yoshikatsu Yoshida (吉田 義勝, Yoshida Yoshikatsu, born October 30, 1941) is a retired Japanese freestyle wrestler. He won gold medals in the 52 kg category at the 1964 Summer Olympics and 1965 World Wrestling Championships.Born in Hokkaido, Yoshida graduated from the Nihon University in Tokyo. After retiring from wrestling he left sport and worked for Meiji Dairies, eventually joining its Board of Directors.Yoshikatsu Yoshida (吉田義勝) is often confused with Eikatsu Yoshida (吉田栄勝), a former national champion, wrestling coach and father of Saori Yoshida.

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Fritz Stöckli vs. Bengt Fahlkvist at the 1948 Olympics

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Russell Dwayne Mark Leverock (born 14 July 1971 in Bermuda) is a former Bermudian cricketer.Dwayne is currently in talks with Ben Rhydding about becoming their overseas player for the upcoming season. Talks are looking positive and Dwayne is quoted at saying "he would jump at the chance to play for them".Known as 'Sluggo' and living above a curry house in Bermuda, Leverock is a policeman and also drives a prison van. At the 2007 Cricket World Cup he was the largest player to grace the pitch, weighing in at 20 stone (280 pounds or 127 kg). However he is not the heaviest man to ever play international cricket. Warwick Armstrong weighed about 22 stone.

Shazam Sergeyevich Safin (Russian: Шазам Серге́евич Сафин, Tatar: Шәзам Сафа улы Сафин; born April 7, 1932 – 1985) was a Soviet wrestler who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kochki-Pozharki, Nizhny Novgorod.At the USSR championship-1952 Shazam Safin took the third place. According to the classification of that period, this result was not high enough for the title of master of sports to be conferred upon the athlete. To receive the "master of sports" title, the athlete was either to win the USSR national championship or to take second place. However, Safin, a first-grade wrestler, got included into the USSR Olympic team and successfully appeared at the XV Olympic Games winning the gold medal. In final fight he won famous Swedish wrestler Gustav Freij.In the 1953 World Championship in Naples (Italy), Safin received the bronze medal, having lost points to Finnish athlete Lehton. The world champion title in the 67 kg weight class was gained by Frei.

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Bayram Şit (born 1930) is a former Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won the gold medal in the Featherweight class of Men's Freestyle Wrestling at the 1952 Olympics.He was born 1930 in the village Akşar of Acıpayam district of Denizli Province, Turkey. He won the gold medal at the 1951 Mediterranean Games and the 1952 Summer Olympics and became 1954 World silver medalist in Japan.

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Hazan Gemici (15 June 1927 – 25 June 2001) was a Turkish sports wrestler and trainer, who won the gold medal in the flyweight class of men's freestyle wrestling at the 1952 Olympics.He was born in Giresun and died in İzmit, Kocaeli Province of Turkey.Gemici began wrestling 1949 in İzmit (Kocaeli). He won the gold medal at the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria, Egypt, before he became Olympic gold medalist in Helsinki, Finland the next year.

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Branko Martinović (29 November 1937 – 26 February 2015) was a Serbian wrestler who competed in the 1960 Summer Olympics and in the 1964 Summer Olympics. He was born in Belgrade.

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Anatoly Ivanovich Parfyonov (Russian: Анатолий Иванович Парфëнов, 17 November 1925 – 28 January 1993) was a Soviet heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler who won a gold medal at the 1956 Olympics.In his youth Parfyonov worked as a mechanic at a spinning and weaving factory. In 1942, during World War II, he enlisted to the Soviet Army, and fought as a machine gunner and later as a T-34 tank driver. In October 1943 he was wounded in the elbow and arm during the battle of the Dnieper, and after that could not fully bend the arm for the rest of his life. For his wartime service he was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Patriotic War. He was honorably discharged in 1946 and returned to his spinning factory.Parfyonov took up wrestling in 1951, aged 26, and won the Soviet heavyweight title in 1954 and 1957, placing third in 1956 and 1959. He was never skilled in wrestling techniques, but was revered for his physical strength. After retiring from competitions Parfyonov had a long career as a wrestling coach and raised the 1976 Olympic champion Nikolay Balboshin. His son Vladimir also became a competitive wrestler. In the 1960s–70s Parfyonov had minor roles in Soviet films, such as a German security guard in Seventeen Moments of Spring. Since 1999 an international wrestling has been held in Moscow in his honor. The minor planet 7913 Parfyonov is named after him.

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Givi Kartozia (Georgian: გივი კარტოზია; 29 March 1929 – 3 April 1998) was a middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Georgia. He won an Olympic gold medal in 1956 and a world title in 1953, 1955 and 1958. Domestically he was the Soviet middleweight champion in 1952–55, and placed second in 1956 and third in 1950 and 1951. For the 1960 Olympics he moved up to the light-heavyweight class and won a bronze medal. He retired soon after the Olympics and since 1966 acted as an international wrestling referee. He died in 1998, aged 69, and starting from 2010 an annual international wrestling tournament has been held in Tbilisi in his honor.

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