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He is the only American to win World medals in three styles of wrestling — Freestyle, Greco-Roman and Sambo. [ 2 ] While serving with the U.S. Marines , stationed at Quantico, Virginia , he won a silver medal at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Greco-Roman, as well as two silver and a bronze medal in freestyle wrestling at the World Championships ...
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Euro-English) [2] is a style of wrestling that is practiced worldwide. Greco-Roman wrestling was included in the first modern Olympic Games in 1896 and has been in every edition of the summer Olympics held since 1904 . [ 3 ]
He also won a bronze medal at the 1985 World Wrestling Championships. Martinez wrestled for the University of Minnesota, where he was a Big Ten Champion and NCAA Division I All-American. From 2009 to 2019, he was the head coach of Corona del Sol High School wrestling team, where he won two state championships in 2010 and 2017.
Stelios Mygiakis (Greek: Στυλιανός Μυγιάκης, born 5 May 1952) is a Greek Greco-Roman wrestler. He won an Olympic gold medal and is the first Greek to become an Olympic Champion in wrestling. Mygiakis also won a gold medal at both the European Wrestling Championships and Mediterranean Games.
At the World Wrestling Championships he won a total of three medals: in 2019 he won the silver medal [4] [5] and both in 2017 and in 2018 he won one of the bronze medals. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] He won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 Pan American Wrestling Championships held in Acapulco, Mexico.
Toggle List of 20 and Under World Champions in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling subsection 5.1 Junior Worlds, 1973–1977 (20 and Under) 5.2 Junior Worlds, 1979 (20 and Under)
Jacob Deitchler (born December 1, 1989) is an American former wrestler who competed for the United States Greco-Roman wrestling team at the 2008 Summer Olympics.Deitchler, from Ramsey, Minnesota, is a former University of Minnesota wrestler and became the third wrestler in American history to go directly from high school and earn a spot on an Olympic Team.
Steven Howard "Steve" Fraser (born March 23, 1958) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler and coach. He was the 1984 Olympic Games gold medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling, in the 90 kg weight class. Fraser's gold medal was the first ever for the United States in Greco-Roman wrestling. [1]