Émile Poilvé

Émile Poilvé (September 19, 1903 – October 11, 1962) was a French wrestler who won the gold medal at the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. France had to wait 72 years and Steeve Guenot at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games to win another gold medal in wrestling.

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Olympic Champions in freestyle middleweight

1908 Stanley Bacon (GBR) 1920 Eino Leino (FIN) 1924 Fritz Hagmann (SUI) 1928 Ernst Kyburz (SUI) 1932 Ivar Johansson (SWE) 1936 Émile Poilvé (FRA) 1948 Glen Brand (USA) 1952 David Tsimakuridze (URS) 1956 Nikola Stanchev (BUL) 1960 Hasan Güngör (TUR) 1964 Prodan Gardzhev (BUL) 1968 Boris Gurevich (URS) 1972 Levan Tediashvili (URS) 1976 John Peterson (USA) 1980 Ismail Abilov (BUL) 1984 Mark Schultz (USA) 1988 Han Myung-woo (KOR) 1992 Kevin Jackson (USA) 1996 Khadzhimurad Magomedov (RUS) 2000 Adam Saitiev (RUS) 2004 Cael Sanderson (USA) 2008 Revaz Mindorashvili (GEO) 2012 Sharif Sharifov (AZE) 2016 Abdulrashid Sadulaev (RUS)

−73 kg (1908) −75 kg (1920) −79 kg (1924–1960) −87 kg (1964–1968) −82 kg (1972–1996) −85 kg (2000) −84 kg (2004–2012) −86 kg (2016–Present)

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