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Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (; ; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first
Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (; ; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first Greco-Roman
The Greco-Roman world , also Greco-Roman civilization, Greco-Roman culture or Greco-Latin culture (spelled Græco-Roman or Graeco-Roman in British English), as understood by modern scholars and writers, includes the geographical regions and co ...
wrestling world champion from Ukraine.
Biography
Gamarnik was Jewish, and was born in Zinovievsk (today's Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine, in the Soviet Union. He was trained by USSR wrestling trainers German Sandler and Armenak Yaltyryan.Wrestling career
In 1948, he won second place in light middleweight class wrestling, at the All-Union Youth Contests in the USSR. Gamarnik was world lightweight (67 kg)Greco-Roman wrestling
Greco-Roman (American English), Graeco-Roman (British English), or classic wrestling (Euro-English) 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 i ...
champion at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe
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, Germany, beating out silver medalist Kyösti Lehtonen
Kyösti Eemil "Köpi" Lehtonen (13 March 1931 – 15 November 1987) was a lightweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Finland. He competed at the 1956, 1960 and 1964 Olympics and won a gold medal in 1956, placing fifth in 1960. Previously he won two s ...
of Finland and bronze medalist Gustav Freij of Sweden. He came in second in the 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest
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, Hungary, in welterweight (73 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling, behind gold medalist Kazim Ayvaz of Turkey and ahead of bronze medalist Valeriu Bularca of Romania.
He came in fifth in the 1960 Summer Olympics
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in Rome, Italy, in men's welterweight Greco-Roman wrestling. Gamarnik was also a USSR wrestling champion in 1953, and in 1956–58.
Retirement
After retiring from competitions, Gamarnik was the Ukrainian National Coach from 1970 to 1991. He also served as a President of Greco-Roman Federation, was a FILA International referee since 1979, officiated at the Moscow Olympic Games (1980), and was one of the organizers of the FILA World Cup in 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine. For his many years of commitment, Grigory Gamarnik was awarded the FILA Gold Star (1983) by then president Milan Ercegan. Grigory Gamarnik was inducted into theInternational Jewish Sports Hall of Fame
The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame (IJSHOF) () is the international hall of fame for Jewish athletes and special contributors to the world of sport.
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in 2020.
See also
* List of select Jewish wrestlersReferences
External links
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Gamarnik, Grigory 1929 births 2018 deaths Olympic wrestlers for the Soviet Union Wrestlers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Soviet male sport wrestlers Ukrainian male sport wrestlers Jewish sport wrestlers Soviet Jews Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople Sportspeople from Kropyvnytskyi World Wrestling Championships medalists National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport alumni 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen