This medal is the third for the Russian team in Greco-Roman wrestling at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games. Earlier Roman Vlasov and Davit Chakvetadze won gold in Greco-Roman wrestling in 75 kg and 85 ...

Russian Greco-Roman wrestler Roman Vlasov did not realize that he won the Olympic gold medal yet. “But I went to London only to win the gold medal,” the wrestler said after an awarding ...

Russian Aleksandr Karelin entered Sydney universally regarded as the greatest Greco-Roman wrestler of all-time, and with a chance to become wrestling's first four-time Olympic champion. Undefeated in ...

Day one is in the books from U20 and U23 Nationals in Geneva, Ohio. Friday was all Greco-Roman, all the time with the finals ...

The use of the legs is not allowed in male-only Greco-Roman, which also outlaws holds below the waist, but both are permitted in freestyle wrestling, contested at the Games by both men and ...

Former Russian Georgij Tibilov (60kg), representing ... refugee athletes in the 74 kg freestyle wrestling and 60 kg Greco-Roman wrestling categories at the Olympic Wrestling Tournament, which ...

The 36th Congress of FILA was held in 1992 in Barcelona. The three wrestling styles governed by FILA are Greco-Roman wrestling, freestyle wrestling. To date, a total of 41 Greco-Roman World ...

Greco-Roman Wrestling: Aleksandr Karelin Aleksandr Karelin ... Karelin started wrestling at 13 and became a 13-time Russian champion from 1988-2000, when he retired. He became an Olympic athlete ...

But can they still make it to Paris? What does UWW lifting its suspension mean for Indian wrestling? Who runs the WFI? Why is there confusion? ESPN explains. India sides with IOC over IBA in ...

The Republic of Dagestan (Russia) has just over three million inhabitants. Still, it has 12 fighters in the UFC, the most ...

CHIBA, Tokyo, Aug 2 -- Cuba's Mijain Lopez signed off from his fifth Olympics with a record fourth gold medal after winning the Greco-Roman super heavyweight final ... but it was the Russian Olympic ...

Indian Greco-roman grapplers failed to impress on the ... rounds in all six weight categories in Istanbul on Thursday. (More Wrestling News) Sumit (60kg), Ashu (67kg), Vikas (77kg), Sunil Kumar ...