Gennady Korban, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Gennady Korban

Olympic wrestler

Date of Birth: 01-Feb-1949

Place of Birth: Engels, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, Russia

Profession: amateur wrestler

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius


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About Gennady Korban

  • Gennady Vladimirovich Korban (Russian: ???????? ???????????? ??????; born 9 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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