Saypulla Absaidov

Saypulla Absaidov (born 14 July 1958 in Tarki, Dagestan ASSR) is a former Soviet wrestler and Olympic champion and World Champion 1981 in Freestyle wrestling.

Olympics

Absaidov competed at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow where he received a gold medal in Freestyle wrestling, the lightweight class.^[1]

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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