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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 ]
From there, he was introduced to the Greco-Roman style of wrestling and the start of a prolific Greco-Roman wrestling career. [3] Byers joined the U.S. Army World Class Athlete Program (WCAP) in 1997. He competed out of Colorado Springs, Colorado for the US Army, in the 120 kg (264.5 lbs) weight class. During his career he had many ...
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.
Dennis Marwin Koslowski (born August 16, 1959) is an American amateur wrestler and professional wrestler.He was born in Watertown, South Dakota.He was Olympic bronze medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1988, and won a silver medal in 1992. [1]
Mike Houck (born 1959) is an American former Greco-Roman wrestler. [1] In 1985, he became the first American to win a World Championship in Greco-Roman wrestling, winning the 90 kg title. [2] In 2008, Houck was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member. [3]
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 ...
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.
This is the complete list of Olympic medalists in Greco-Roman wrestling. Mijaín López is the only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event. [1]