Pavel Pinigin

Pavel Pinigin
Medal record

Representing Soviet Union
Men's Freestyle wrestling
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	Lightweight
World Championships
	1975 Minsk	68 kg
	1977 Lausanne	68 kg
	1978 Mexico City	68 kg

Pavel Pinigin (Russian: Павел Павлович Пинигин; born 12 March 1953) is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion in Freestyle wrestling. He is also three times world champion in freestyle wrestling.

Olympics

Pinigin competed at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the lightweight class.^[1]

References

↑ "Profile: Pavel Pinigin". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 9 January 2009.

Olympic Champions in freestyle lightweight

1904 Otto Roehm (USA) 1908 George de Relwyskow (GBR) 1920 Kalle Anttila (FIN) 1924 Russell Vis (USA) 1928 Osvald Käpp (EST) 1932 Charles Pacôme (FRA) 1936 Károly Kárpáti (HUN) 1948 Celal Atik (TUR) 1952 Olle Anderberg (SWE) 1956 Emam-Ali Habibi (IRN) 1960 Shelby Wilson (USA) 1964 Enyu Valchev (BUL) 1968 Abdollah Movahed (IRN) 1972 Dan Gable (USA) 1976 Pavel Pinigin (URS) 1980 Saypulla Absaidov (URS) 1984 You In-tak (KOR) 1988 Arsen Fadzayev (URS) 1992 Arsen Fadzayev (EUN) 1996 Vadim Bogiyev (RUS) 2000 Daniel Igali (CAN) 2004 Elbrus Tedeyev (UKR) 2008 Ramazan Şahin (TUR) 2012 Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (JPN) 2016 Soslan Ramonov (RUS)

−65.77 kg (1904) −66.6 kg (1908) −67.5 kg (1920–1936) −67 kg (1948–1960) −70 kg (1964–1968) −68 kg (1972–1996) −69 kg (2000) −66 kg (2004–2012) −65 kg (2016–Present)

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