Mijaín López

Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler
You can help expand this article with text translated from the corresponding article in Spanish. (January 2020) Click [show] for important translation instructions.
  • Machine translation, like DeepL or Google Translate, is a useful starting point for translations, but translators must revise errors as necessary and confirm that the translation is accurate, rather than simply copy-pasting machine-translated text into the English Wikipedia.
  • Consider adding a topic to this template: there are already 5,023 articles in the main category, and specifying|topic= will aid in categorization.
  • Do not translate text that appears unreliable or low-quality. If possible, verify the text with references provided in the foreign-language article.
  • You must provide copyright attribution in the edit summary accompanying your translation by providing an interlanguage link to the source of your translation. A model attribution edit summary is Content in this edit is translated from the existing Spanish Wikipedia article at [[:es:Mijaín López Núñez]]; see its history for attribution.
  • You may also add the template {{Translated|es|Mijaín López Núñez}} to the talk page.
  • For more guidance, see Wikipedia:Translation.

Mijaín López
López (left) at the 2009 World Championships
Personal information
Full nameMijaín López Núñez
Nickname(s)The Kid, The Terrible'
NationalityCuban
Born (1982-08-20) 20 August 1982 (age 41)
Pinar del Río, Cuba
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight131.5 kg (290 lb)
Sport
CountryCuba
SportWrestling
EventGreco-Roman
ClubCerro Pelado
Coached byPedro Val
Medal record
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 4 0 0
World Championship 5 3 0
World Cup 3 0 0
World University Championship 1 0 0
Pan American Games 5 0 0
Central American and Caribbean Games 3 0 0
Pan American Championship 9 1 0
Grand Prix Ivan Poddubny 0 0 1
Junior Pan American Wrestling Championship 2 0 0
Total 32 4 1
Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling
Representing  Cuba
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2012 London 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 130 kg
Gold medal – first place 2020 Tokyo 130 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Budapest 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2007 Baku 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2009 Herning 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2010 Moscow 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2014 Tashkent 130 kg
Silver medal – second place 2006 Guangzhou 120 kg
Silver medal – second place 2011 Istanbul 120 kg
Silver medal – second place 2015 Las Vegas 130 kg
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2005 Tehran 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2006 Budapest 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2009 Clermont-Ferrand 120 kg
World University Championships
Gold medal – first place 2005 Izmir 120 kg
Pan American Games
Gold medal – first place 2003 Santo Domingo 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2007 Rio de Janeiro 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2011 Guadalajara 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2015 Toronto 130 kg
Gold medal – first place 2019 Lima 130 kg
Central American and Caribbean Games
Gold medal – first place 2014 San Juan 130 kg[1]
Gold medal – first place 2014 Veracruz 130 kg[2]
Gold medal – first place 2018 Barranquilla 130 kg
Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Maracaibo 120 kg
Silver medal – second place 2003 Guatemala City 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2004 Guatemala City 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2005 Guatemala City 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2006 Rio de Janeiro 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2007 San Salvador 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2008 Colorado Springs 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2009 Maracaibo 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2012 Colorado Springs 120 kg
Gold medal – first place 2014 Mexico City 130 kg
Junior Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Bogota 120 kg
Men's Freestyle Wrestling
Junior Pan American Championships
Gold medal – first place 2002 Bogota 120 kg

Mijaín López Núñez (born 20 August 1982) is a Cuban Greco-Roman wrestler. He is a four-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time World Champion, and five-time Pan American Games champion and is widely considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time. He is the younger brother of Michel López Núñez, a Cuban amateur boxer.[3]

Career

López has represented Cuba at the 2004, 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics in Athens, Beijing, and London, and was his country's flag bearer during the opening ceremonies in 2008 and 2012.[4] In both competitions, he won the gold medal in the men's Greco-Roman 120 kg category.[5] At the 2016 Rio Games, López won Gold in the 130 kg category. He again won gold at the 2020 Tokyo Games without losing a single point in the tournament, becoming the first male wrestler to win four Olympic gold medals, as well as only the fifth athlete to win four gold medals in the same individual event. [6] During the opening ceremony of the same Olympics, he also became the first Cuban representative to become the country’s flag bearer four times, breaking the tie between Teófilo Stevenson and himself.[7]

International competition record

International competition record (incomplete)[8]
Res. Opponent Method Time/
Score 		Date Event Location Venue

References

  1. ^ Details of the 130 kg division Greco-Roman event at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 2014 from the United World Wrestling Database.
  2. ^ Details of the 130 kg division Greco-Roman event at the 2014 Central American and Caribbean Games in Veracruz, Mexico, November 2014 from the United World Wrestling Database.
  3. ^ "International Wrestling Database".
  4. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Mijaín López". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 3 December 2016.
  5. ^ "Cuba's Lopez wins 120kg Greco-roman wrestling gold". The Times of India. Retrieved 7 August 2012.
  6. ^ "Wrestler wins fourth straight Olympic gold". BBC Sport.
  7. ^ "The flagbearers for the Tokyo 2020 Opening Ceremony" (PDF). olympics.com. IOC. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
  8. ^ Details of Mijaín López Núñez profile available at the United World Wrestling Database.

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Mijaín López.
Wikiquote has quotations related to Mijaín López.
Olympic Games
Preceded by Flagbearer for  Cuba
Beijing 2008
London 2012
Rio de Janeiro 2016
Tokyo 2020
(with Yaime Pérez) 		Succeeded by
Incumbent
  • v
  • t
  • e
  • 1972–1984: +100 kg
  • 1988–2000: 130 kg
  • 2004–2012: 120 kg
  • 2016–present: 130 kg
  • v
  • t
  • e
World Champions in Greco-Roman super heavyweight (130 kg)
  • 1969–1983: +100 kg
  • 1985–2001: 130 kg
  • 2002–2013: 120 kg
  • 2014–present: 130 kg


Stub icon 1 Stub icon 2

This article about a Cuban Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e
Cuba Stub icon 2

This biographical article relating to a Cuban sport wrestler or wrestling coach is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • v
  • t
  • e