Oleg Karavayev
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Gold | 1960 Rome | Greco-Roman Bantamweight |
Oleg Karavayev (20 May 1936 – 23 August 1978) was a Soviet wrestler and Olympic Champion. He was born in Minsk.
He was Jewish.[1] He competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome where he won a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.[2] He was also 1958 and 1961 world champion, and USSR champion multiple times.[3]
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- ↑ "Profile: Oleg Karavayev". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 11 March 2009.
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