Ignazio Fabra

Ignazio Fabra
Medal record
Competitor for  Italy
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
1952 Helsinki Flyweight
1956 Melbourne Flyweight

Ignazio Fabra (April 25, 1930 – April 13, 2008) is an Italian wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.

He was born in Palermo and died in Genoa.

Olympics

Fabra competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki where he received a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the flyweight class, behind gold medalist Boris Maksovich Gurevich of the Soviet Union and ahead of bronze medalist Leo Honkala of Finland.[1][2] He received another silver medal at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.[3]

References

  1. "Wrestling at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Flyweight, Greco-Roman". Sports-reference.com. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
  2. "1952 Summer Olympics Helsinki, Finland Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 27, 2008)
  3. "1956 Summer Olympics Melbourne, Australia Wrestling" databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 27, 2008)
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