Rustam Kazakov

Rustam Kazakov
Medal record

Representing the Soviet Union
Men's wrestling
Olympic Games
	1972 Munich	Greco-Roman Bantamweight

Rustem Kazakov (born 2 January 1947) is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion.

He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class. He is also two times world champion in 1969 and 1971. ^[1]

References

↑ "Profile: Rustem Kazakov". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 11 March 2009.

Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman bantamweight

1924 Eduard Pütsep (EST) 1928 Kurt Leucht (GER) 1932 Jakob Brendel (GER) 1936 Márton Lőrincz (HUN) 1948 Kurt Pettersén (SWE) 1952 Imre Hódos (HUN) 1956 Konstantin Vyrupayev (URS) 1960 Oleg Karavayev (URS) 1964 Masamitsu Ichiguchi (JPN) 1968 János Varga (HUN) 1972 Rustam Kazakov (URS) 1976 Pertti Ukkola (FIN) 1980 Shamil Serikov (URS) 1984 Pasquale Passarelli (FRG) 1988 András Sike (HUN) 1992 An Han-bong (KOR) 1996 Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) 2000 Armen Nazaryan (BUL) 2004 István Majoros (HUN) 2008 Nazyr Mankiev (RUS) 2012 Hamid Sourian (IRI) 2016 Ismael Borrero (CUB)

−58 kg (1924–1928) −56 kg (1932–1936) −57 kg (1948–1996) −58 kg (2000) −55 kg (2004–2012) −59 kg (2016–Present)

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