Ryszard Wolny

Ryszard Wolny (born 24 March 1969 in Racibórz) is a Polish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Olympics

Wolny has competed in five Olympics, from 1988 to 2004. At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the lightweight class.^[1]

Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman lightweight

1908: Enrico Porro (ITA) 1912: Emil Väre (FIN) 1920: Emil Väre (FIN) 1924: Oskari Friman (FIN) 1928: Lajos Keresztes (HUN) 1932: Erik Malmberg (SWE) 1936: Lauri Koskela (FIN) 1948: Gustav Freij (SWE) 1952: Shazam Safin (URS) 1956: Kyösti Lehtonen (FIN) 1960: Avtandil Koridze (URS) 1964: Kazım Ayvaz (TUR) 1968: Muneji Munemura (JPN) 1972: Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS) 1976: Suren Nalbandyan (URS) 1980: Ştefan Rusu (ROM) 1984: Vlado Lisjak (YUG) 1988: Levon Julfalakyan (URS) 1992: Attila Repka (HUN) 1996: Ryszard Wolny (POL) 2000: Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) 2004: Farid Mansurov (AZE) 2008: Steeve Guénot (FRA) 2012: Kim Hyeon-woo (KOR) 2016: Davor Štefanek (SRB)

−66.6 kg (1908) −67.5 kg (1912–1928) −66 kg (1932–1936) −67 kg (1948–1960) −70 kg (1964–1968) −68 kg (1972–1996) −69 kg (2000) −66 kg (2004–Present)

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