11-15-2009, 08:03 PM
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 |  Re: Best Greco Wrestlers Ever There were some great names thrown out. Thanks for your contributions. Since people did not seem to offer more than a few names at a time, I thought I would offer a selection of some of the best at Greco, so here’s my take on the greatest Greco-Roman wrestlers of all time. My definition would have to be the most dominant wrestlers: Those winning the most gold medals in the world championships and Olympics since 1948. The undisputed best: Minimum 5 gold at Olympics and world championships combined at the same weight class, with at least 1 Olympic gold : Only Kirov, Resanzev, Balboshin, and Karoline, plus Kozma--another Hwt. The most outstanding of this group in a class by themselves, in my opinion, are Resanzev 90kg and Karoline at Hwt/130kg, with 2 or more Olympic gold and 5 or more world gold. In my opinion, to be an undisputed best you would have to win an Olympic gold. Some great wrestlers never accomplished that. Of course, I also offer some other choices for the best around each weight category if there isn’t an obvious choice with at least 5 world level golds including the Olympics. I’ve seen almost all these in person or film, but have included a few that seemed to fill a hole at the 74-85kg area, that dominated in their era. I did not include wrestlers before the Olympics in 1948 and before the holding of consistent world championships by FILA beginning in 1950’s, as the competition was probably somewhat thin before those times. G=Gold S=Silver B=Bronze O=Olympic W=World Championship 48kg Vladimir Zubkov, Kwon Ho Sim,,,,,,, Georgi Berceanu ----------4WG -------/ 1OG, 1WG 48kg / 1OG, 1OS, 2WG -------------------------1OG, 1WG 52kg 52kg Petar Kirov,, Jon Roenningen ------2OG, 3WG / 2OG, 1WG 55, 57, 60kg Soyan Reihannpour, Armen Nazarian --------------4WG 55kg---------/ 1OG 52kg ------------------------------------1OG 58kg ------------------------------------1OB, 3WG 60kg 62-63kg Roman Rurua ---------1OG, 1OS, 3WG 62-63kg ---------1WG 68kg ---------Imre Polyak,,,,,,,,,,,, Sergey Martinov ---------1OG, 3OS, 3WG / 1OS, 4WG 68kg Islam Dugushiev, Fililberto Ascuy ------1OS, 4WG ----/ 1OG, 1WG 69kg ------------------------1OG 74kg 74kg Viktor Igumenov, Mnazakan Iskandaryan ------5WG-------------/ 1OG, 3WG ------Michail Mamiashvili, Viteslav Macha ------3WG 74kg---------/ 1OG, 1OS, 2WG ------1OG 82kg 82kg Hamza Herlikaya,,,,,,,, Anatoli Kolessov,,, Giwi Kartosija ------2OG, 2WG 82-85kg /1OG, 3WG 78kg / 1OG, 1OB, 3WG 79kg ------1WG 96kg 90kg Valeri Resanzev, Maik Bullmann,,,,,,,,,Georgi Kogouashvili ------2OG, 5WG-----/ 1OG, 1OB, 3WG / 1OB, 5WG 97, 100kg Nicolai Balboshin, Boyan Radev, Andrei Wronski -------1OG, 5WG-----------/2OG, 1WG--/2OG, 1WG 100+, 120, 130kg Alexander Kareline, Istvan Kozma, Alexander Tomov -------------------3OG, 1OS, 9WG--/ 2OG, 3WG--/ 3OS, 5WG Some of my favorite wrestlers are not on this list. Last edited by ThePython; 11-24-2009 at 08:26 PM. |
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