Olympic Gold Medalists Who've Done Pro Wrestling
A list of all the Olympic gold medalists (from various sports) who've had at least one pro wrestling match.
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| Kurt Angle, Henri Deglane, Charles Rigoulot, Anton Geesink Axel Cadier, Johan Richthoff, Robin Reed, Robert Roth |
Gold Medalists in Amateur Wrestling:
person (their country) - year they won the gold medal, wrestling styleGeorge Mehnert (USA) - 1904/1908, freestyle
Isidor Niflot (USA) - 1904, freestyle
Richárd Weisz (Hungary) - 1908, Greco-Roman
George Cornelius O'Kelly (Great Britain) - 1908, freestyle
George de Relwyskow (Great Britain) - 1908, freestyle
Yrjö Saarela (Finland) - 1912, Greco-Roman
Robert Roth (Switzerland) - 1920, freestyle
Henri Deglane (France) - 1924, Greco-Roman
John Spellman (USA) - 1924, freestyle
Robin Reed (USA) - 1924, freestyle
Russell Vis (USA) - 1924, freestyle
Johan Richthoff (Sweden) - 1928/1932, freestyle
Pete Mehringer (USA) - 1932, freestyle
Jack van Bebber (USA) - 1932, freestyle
Robert Pearce (USA) - 1932, freestyle
Axel Cadier (Sweden) - 1936, Greco-Roman
Ahmet Kireççi (Türkiye) - 1948, Greco-Roman
Kyösti Lehtonen (Finland) - 1956, Greco-Roman
Wilfried Dietrich (Germany) - 1960, freestyle
Norbert Növényi (Hungary) - 1980, Greco-Roman
Aleksandr Karelin (Russia) - 1988/1992/1996, Greco-Roman
David Gobejishvili (Georgia) - 1988, freestyle
Kurt Angle (USA) - 1996, freestyle
Gable Steveson (USA) - 2020, freestyle
Tamyra Mensah-Stock (USA) - 2020, freestyle
Gold Medalists in Weightlifting:
Ernest Cadine (France) - 1920Charles Rigoulot (France) - 1924
El-Sayed Nosseir (Egypt) - 1928
Paul Anderson (USA) - 1956
Gold Medalists in Judo:
Anton Geesink (The Netherlands) - 1964Willem Ruska (The Netherlands) - 1972
Shota Chochishvili (Georgia) - 1972
David Khakhaleishvili (Georgia) - 1992
Aaron Wolf (Japan) - 2020
Gold Medalists in Boxing:
Muhammad Ali (USA) - 1960 [mixed rules match only, however]Leon Spinks (USA) - 1976
Gold Medalists in Shot Put:
Władysław Komar (Poland) - 1972Gold Medalists in Cycling:
Michel Rousseau (France) - 1956And, technically, you could add Karl Malone (1992, 1996) and Shaquille O'Neal (1996) to the list as well, because they were part of the U.S. teams that won the gold in basketball.
Acknowledgements: Thank you to Matt Farmer, Mark Hewitt, Jason Presley and Marko Simonen for mentioning a few additional names that I was not aware of.

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