Gennady Korban

Olympic wrestler
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroOlympic wrestler
PlacesRussia
isWrestler Athlete Amateur wrestler
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
Birth1 February 1949, Engels, Engelssky District, Saratov Oblast
Age75 years
The details

Biography

Gennady Vladimirovich Korban (Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Корбан; born 1 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.

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.

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