Enrico Porro
Italian wrestler (1885–1967)
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Nationality | Italy | ||||||||||||||
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 | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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)
- 2024: Saeid Esmaeili (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