Grigory Gamarnik

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Grigory Gamarnik

Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik (Russian: Григорий Александрович Гамарник; Ukrainian: Григорій Олександрович Гамарник, romanized: Hryhorii Oleksandrovych Hamarnyk; April 22, 1929 – April 18, 2018) was a world champion wrestler and the first Greco-Roman wrestling world champion from Ukraine.[1][2]

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Grigory Gamarnik
Григорий Гамарник
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Grigory Aleksandrovich Gamarnik

April 22, 1929
Zinovievsk, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union
DiedApril 18, 2018(2018-04-18) (aged 88)
NationalityUkrainian
CitizenshipUSSR
OccupationWrestler
Known forWorld champion in 67 kg. Greco-Roman wrestling (1955)
Height5 ft 7 in (171 cm)
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Medal record
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Representing  Soviet Union
World Championships
1955 KarlsruheLightweight
1958 BudapestWelterweight
USSR Championships
1953
1956
1957
1958
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Grigory Gamarnik - Greco-Roman wrestling champion - April 24, 1955 Karlsruhe, Germany with his prize.
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Grigory Gamarnik (in red) on the cover of the Ukrainian Sports Magazine (11/1958)
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Grigory Gamarnik in later years

Biography

Gamarnik was Jewish, and was born in Zinovievsk (today's Kropyvnytskyi), Ukraine, in the Soviet Union.[1][3] He was trained by USSR wrestling trainers German Sandler and Armenak Yaltyryan.

Wrestling career

In 1948, he won second place in light middleweight class wrestling, at the All-Union Youth Contests in the USSR.[4]

Gamarnik was world lightweight (67 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling champion at the 1955 World Wrestling Championships in Karlsruhe, Germany, beating out silver medalist Kyösti Lehtonen of Finland and bronze medalist Gustav Freij of Sweden.[1][5][6][7] He came in second in the 1958 World Wrestling Championships in Budapest, Hungary, in welterweight (73 kg) Greco-Roman wrestling, behind gold medalist Kazim Ayvaz of Turkey and ahead of bronze medalist Valeriu Bularca of Romania.[1][5][6][7]

He came in fifth in the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy, in men's welterweight Greco-Roman wrestling.[1][7] Gamarnik was also a USSR wrestling champion in 1953, and in 1956–58.[3][8]

Retirement

After retiring from competitions, Gamarnik was the Ukrainian National Coach from 1970 to 1991. He also served as a President of Greco-Roman Federation, was a FILA International referee since 1979, officiated at the Moscow Olympic Games (1980), and was one of the organizers of the FILA World Cup in 1983 in Kiev, Ukraine. For his many years of commitment, Grigory Gamarnik was awarded the FILA Gold Star (1983) by then president Milan Ercegan.

Grigory Gamarnik was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 2020.[9]

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