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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 ]
Considering one of South America's top Greco-Roman wrestlers in his decade, Barreno has claimed a prestigious gold medal at the 2010 Central American and Caribbean Games in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico, produced a staggering tally of four medals (one silver and three bronze) at the Pan American Games, and also represented as part of the Venezuelan ...
Meng was born on 16 April 1998, in Dingtao District, Heze, Shandong.When he was four years old, he started training in martial arts. [3] [4]When Meng was six years old, his talent was discovered by a coach and was taken to Heze City Sports School to train in wrestling.
Carlos Andrés Muñoz Jaramillo (born August 3, 1992 in La Ceja, Antioquia) is an amateur Colombian Greco-Roman wrestler, who won a bronze medal at the 2015 Pan American Games in Toronto. He won the gold medal in his event at the 2022 Bolivarian Games held in Valledupar, Colombia.
Joseph Ryan Warren (born October 31, 1976) is an American Greco-Roman wrestler and mixed martial artist who most recently competed for Bellator MMA. [2] In Bellator, Warren became the first fighter in the promotion's history to become world champion in 2 divisions, winning the Bellator Featherweight World Championship in 2010 and the Bantamweight World Championship in 2014.
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.
However, it was his matches with Gotch that ensured the growing popularity of catch-as-catch-can wrestling over the more laborious Greco-Roman that had previously dominated, and this is the style that enjoys popularity at all scholastic levels, private clubs and the Olympics to this day. Hackenschmidt was a major reason for this.
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.