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Born | Muysky District, Buryat ASSR, Russian SFSR, USSR | 5 December 1938||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 30 August 2023 | (aged 84)||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Greco-Roman wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Gennady Andreyevich Sapunov ( Russian: Геннадий Андреевич Сапунов; 5 December 1938 – 30 August 2023) was a Russian Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed in the 1968 Olympics and won two gold and a silver medal at the World Wrestling Championships. From 1979 to 1990 he was the trainer for the Soviet Greco-Roman wrestling team. [1] Sapunov died on 30 August 2023, at the age of 84. [2]
Gennady Sapunov at Olympics at Sports-Reference.com (archived)