Russell Vis
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Born | (1900-06-22)June 22, 1900 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Died | April 1, 1990(1990-04-01) (aged 89) San Diego, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
Home town | Portland, Oregon, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Russell John Vis (June 22, 1900 – April 1, 1990) was an American amateur and professional wrestler. He spent his youth in Portland, Oregon, where he started wrestling with the same instructor who taught the legendary wrestler Robin Reed. Before the Olympics, Vis was an AAU national champion. He competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he received a gold medal in the freestyle lightweight division.[1][2] Vis then wrestled professionally as a welterweight for three years, but quickly grew tired of the professional circuit and retired in 1930.[3] In 1977, Vis was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[4]
References
- ^ "1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Wrestling" Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 28, 2008)
- ^ "Russell Vis Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18. Retrieved 2013-09-09.
- ^ Chapman, Mike (1990). Encyclopedia of American Wrestling. Champaign, Illinois: Leisure Press. ISBN 9780880113427.
- ^ Russell Vis. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
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- 1904
Otto Roehm (USA)
- 1908
George de Relwyskow (GBR)
- 1920
Kalle Anttila (FIN)
- 1924
Russell Vis (USA)
- 1928
Osvald Käpp (EST)
- 1932
Charles Pacôme (FRA)
- 1936
Károly Kárpáti (HUN)
- 1948
Celal Atik (TUR)
- 1952
Olle Anderberg (SWE)
- 1956
Emam-Ali Habibi (IRN)
- 1960
Shelby Wilson (USA)
- 1964
Enyu Valchev (BUL)
- 1968
Abdollah Movahed (IRN)
- 1972
Dan Gable (USA)
- 1976
Pavel Pinigin (URS)
- 1980
Saypulla Absaidov (URS)
- 1984
You In-tak (KOR)
- 1988
Arsen Fadzaev (URS)
- 1992
Arsen Fadzaev (EUN)
- 1996
Vadim Bogiev (RUS)
- 2000
Daniel Igali (CAN)
- 2004
Elbrus Tedeyev (UKR)
- 2008
Ramazan Şahin (TUR)
- 2012
Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (JPN)
- 2016
Soslan Ramonov (RUS)
- 2020
Takuto Otoguro (JPN)
- 1904: 65.77 kg
- 1908: 66.5 kg
- 1920–1936: 67.5 kg
- 1948–1960: 67 kg
- 1964–1968: 70 kg
- 1972–1996: 68 kg
- 2000: 69 kg
- 2004–2012: 66 kg
- 2016–present: 65 kg
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