Varteres Samourgachev
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| Olympic medal record | |||
| Men's Greco-Roman wrestling | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Gold | 2000 Sydney | 63 kg | |
| Bronze | 2004 Athens | 74 kg | |
Varteres Samourgachev (Russian: Вартерес Вартересович Самургашев; born September 13, 1979 in Rostov-on-Don is a Russian wrestler who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He is a lawyer by profession.
[edit] Medals won
Samourgachev won gold at the 2000 Olympics in the Greco-Roman Featherweight 63kg weight class. Samourgachev also won a bronze medal for Greco-Roman 74kg wrestling at the 2004 Olympics. He was in the final ranking, bronze final, semifinal bout 2, Elimination Pool E Ranking, and Elimination Pool E.
Samourgachev has also been world champion twice (2002 and 2005). In April 2006, in Moscow, he became European champion for the first time.
[edit] External links
- Data Base Olympics has info on him.
- From BBC.
- From SI.COM
- Look here for Olympic Coverage
- The full Turin coverage.
- News coverage of the Russian team and other teams in wrestling competition
- A center about the different people who won at the Greco-Roman competition.
[edit] See also
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