Gennady Korban
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Born | 9 February 1949 Engels, Saratov Oblast, Russia | (age 75)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 175 cm (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | CSKA Moscow | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Gennady Vladimirovich Korban (Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Корбан; born 9 February 1949) is a retired middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia. Between 1979 and 1981 he won two world titles, two European titles, two Soviet titles, and an Olympic gold medal.[1]
Korban took up wrestling in 1962 and won a gold medal at the 1973 Summer Universiade. He retired in the early 1980s to work as a wrestling coach, first in Russia and then in Germany, where he immigrated after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Since 2007, an annual wrestling tournament in his honor has been held in his birth town of Engels.[1]
References
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- ^ a b "Gennady Korban". Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 12 November 2012.
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- 1949 births
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- Soviet male sport wrestlers
- Olympic wrestlers of the Soviet Union
- Wrestlers at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Russian male sport wrestlers
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- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
- Soviet Olympic medalist stubs
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