Enrico Porro
Italian wrestler (1885–1967)
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| Nationality | Italian-Armenian | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1885-01-16)16 January 1885 Lodi Vecchio, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 14 March 1967(1967-03-14) (aged 82) Milan, Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.65 m (5 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 65 kg (143 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Italy | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||
| Club | G.S. Marina Militare | ||||||||||||||
| Retired | 1949 | ||||||||||||||
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Enrico Porro (Enrico Aldanian, 16 January 1885 – 14 March 1967) was an Italian Greco-Roman wrestler and Olympic champion.[1] He was the first gold medal at the Olympic Games of the Italian military sports body Gruppo Sportivo della Marina Militare (the sport section of the Italian armed force Italian Navy).[2]
Biography
Porro competed at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London where he won the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the lightweight class.[3] He also competed at the 1920 and 1924 Summer Olympics.[4]
See also
References
- ^ "Enrico Porro". Olympedia. Retrieved 13 April 2021.
- ^ "Medaglia d'oro ai giochi olimpici di Londra" (in Italian). marina.difesa.it. Retrieved 9 May 2020.
- ^ "1908 Summer Olympics – London, United Kingdom – Wrestling" Archived 5 January 2010 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on 27 August 2008)
- ^ "Enrico Porro Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2013.
External links
Media related to Enrico Porro at Wikimedia Commons- Enrico Porro at the International Wrestling Database (alternate link)
- Enrico Porro at Olympics.com
- Enrico Porro at the Comitato Olimpico Nazionale Italiano (in Italian)
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- 1908
Enrico Porro (ITA) - 1912
Emil Väre (FIN) - 1920
Emil Väre (FIN) - 1924 Oskari Friman (FIN)
- 1928
Lajos Keresztes (HUN) - 1932
Erik Malmberg (SWE) - 1936 Lauri Koskela (FIN)
- 1948 Gustav Freij (SWE)
- 1952
Shazam Safin (URS) - 1956 Kyösti Lehtonen (FIN)
- 1960
Avtandil Koridze (URS) - 1964
Kazım Ayvaz (TUR) - 1968
Muneji Munemura (JPN) - 1972 Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS)
- 1976 Suren Nalbandyan (URS)
- 1980
Ștefan Rusu (ROM) - 1984
Vlado Lisjak (YUG) - 1988 Levon Julfalakyan (URS)
- 1992
Attila Repka (HUN) - 1996
Ryszard Wolny (POL) - 2000
Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) - 2004
Farid Mansurov (AZE) - 2008
Steeve Guénot (FRA) - 2012
Kim Hyeon-woo (KOR) - 2016
Davor Štefanek (SRB) - 2020
Mohammad Reza Geraei (IRI)
- 1908: 66.5 kg
- 1912–1928: 67.5 kg
- 1932–1936: 66 kg
- 1948–1960: 67 kg
- 1964–1968: 70 kg
- 1972–1996: 68 kg
- 2000: 69 kg
- 2004–2016: 66 kg
- 2020–present: 67 kg
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