Jouko Salomäki
Finnish wrestler (born 1962)
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| Full name | Jouko Johannes Salomäki | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | (1962-08-26) 26 August 1962 (age 61) Kauhajoki, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jouko Johannes Salomäki (born 26 August 1962 in Kauhajoki) is a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was nicknamed "Jokke" during his career.
Salomäki competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, in the welterweight class.[1] Salomäki won the World Championship in the same weight class in 1987.
References
- sports-reference
- ^ "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Wrestling" Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 26, 2008)
External links
- Jouko Salomäki at the International Wrestling Database
- Jouko Salomäki at Olympics.com
- Jouko Salomäki at Olympedia
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- 1932
Ivar Johansson (SWE) - 1936 Rudolf Svedberg (SWE)
- 1948 Gösta Andersson (SWE)
- 1952
Miklós Szilvási (HUN) - 1956
Mithat Bayrak (TUR) - 1960 Mithat Bayrak (TUR)
- 1964
Anatoly Kolesov (URS) - 1968
Rudolf Vesper (GDR) - 1972
Vítězslav Mácha (TCH) - 1976 Anatoly Bykov (URS)
- 1980
Ferenc Kocsis (HUN) - 1984
Jouko Salomäki (FIN) - 1988
Kim Young-nam (KOR) - 1992
Mnatsakan Iskandaryan (EUN) - 1996
Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) - 2000
Murat Kardanov (RUS) - 2004
Aleksandr Dokturishvili (UZB) - 2008
Manuchar Kvirkvelia (GEO) - 2012 Roman Vlasov (RUS)
- 2016 Roman Vlasov (RUS)
- 2020 Tamás Lőrincz (HUN)
- 1932–1936: 72 kg
- 1948–1960: 73 kg
- 1964–1968: 78 kg
- 1972–1996: 74 kg
- 2000: 76 kg
- 2004–2012: 74 kg
- 2016: 75 kg
- 2020–present: 77 kg
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