Shamil Serikov
Soviet wrestler (1956–1989)
| Medal record | ||
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 | 1980 Moscow | 57 kg |
Shamil Serikov (5 March 1956 – 22 November 1989) was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion, who was born in Alma-Ata, Kazakh SSR.
He competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.[1] Serikov died by suicide in 1989.[2]
References
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- 1924
Eduard Pütsep (EST) - 1928
Kurt Leucht (GER) - 1932 Jakob Brendel (GER)
- 1936
Márton Lőrincz (HUN) - 1948
Kurt Pettersén (SWE) - 1952
Imre Hódos (HUN) - 1956
Konstantin Vyrupayev (URS) - 1960 Oleg Karavayev (URS)
- 1964
Masamitsu Ichiguchi (JPN) - 1968
János Varga (HUN) - 1972 Rustam Kazakov (URS)
- 1976
Pertti Ukkola (FIN) - 1980 Shamil Serikov (URS)
- 1984
Pasquale Passarelli (FRG) - 1988 András Sike (HUN)
- 1992
An Han-bong (KOR) - 1996
Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) - 2000
Armen Nazaryan (BUL) - 2004 István Majoros (HUN)
- 2008
Nazyr Mankiev (RUS) - 2012
Hamid Sourian (IRI) - 2016
Ismael Borrero (CUB) - 2020 Luis Orta (CUB)
- 1924–1928: 58 kg
- 1932–1936: 56 kg
- 1948–1996: 57 kg
- 2000: 58 kg
- 2004–2012: 55 kg
- 2016: 59 kg
- 2020–present: 60 kg
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