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.

Gold Medalists in Amateur Wrestling 

person (their country) - year they won the gold medal, wrestling style

George Mehnert (USA) - 1904/1908, freestyle
Isidor Niflot (USA) - 1904, freestyle
Richard 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
Peter Mehringer (USA) - 1932, freestyle
Jack van Bebber (USA) - 1932, freestyle
Robert Pearce (USA) - 1932, freestyle
Axel Cadier (Sweden) - 1936, Greco-Roman
Ahmet Kireççi (Turkey) - 1948, Greco-Roman
Kyösti Lehtonen (Finland) - 1956, Greco-Roman
Wilfried Dietrich (Germany) - 1960, freestyle
Norbert Növényi (Hungary) - 1980, Greco-Roman
Aleksandr Karelin (USSR/Russia) - 1988/1992/1996, Greco-Roman
David Gobejishvili (USSR) - 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) - 1920
Charles Rigoulot (France) - 1924
El-Sayed Nosseir (Egypt) - 1928
Paul Anderson (USA) - 1956

 

Gold Medalists in Judo

 Anton Geesink (The Netherlands) - 1964
Willem Ruska (The Netherlands) - 1972
Shota Chochishvili (USSR) - 1972
David Khakhaleishvili (Georgia) - 1992
Aaron Wolf (Japan) - 2020

 

Gold Medalists in Boxing

Leon Spinks (USA) - 1976

 

Gold Medalists in Cycling

 Michel Rousseau (France) - 1956

 
And, 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 Mark Hewitt, Jason Presley, Matt Farmer and Marko Simonen for providing me with a few additional names that I was not aware of.