Shaban Trstena

Shaban Terstena (Albanian: Shaban Tërstena, Macedonian: Шабан Трстена, Serbo-Croatian: Šaban Trstena, born January 1, 1965 in Skopje,^[1] SR Macedonia, Yugoslavia) is a former Yugoslavian and Macedonian wrestler with Albanian origin, who won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and also won the silver medal at the Seoul Olympics in 1988. Terstena is the 1984 European champion, won the silver medals in 1983, 1985, 1986, and the bronze in 1982 and 1988. He holds the 1982 World Wrestling Championships bronze . Whenever he took part in the Mediterranean or Balkan Games, he was the wrestler to win the first place. He has been pronounced the Best Macedonian athlete many times and once, in 1984 the best athlete of Yugoslavia. In 2000 he has been also pronounced the best Albanian athlete of the last century. He has won 715 matches out of 741 fights. He participated in 42 tournaments in the world winning 30 gold medals, the remainder being silver and bronze. At the Atlanta Olympic Games in 1996 he won the fifth place.

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