Steeve Guénot
Guénot at the 2014 Grand Prix of Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1985-10-02) 2 October 1985 (age 38) Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wrestling | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | Greco-Roman | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Steeve François Fabien Guénot (born 2 October 1985) is a French wrestler who won the gold medal in the Men's Greco-Roman 66 kg in the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He became the first Olympic Champion for France in Men's Greco-Roman Wrestling since Emile Poilvé, in the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin. Hired by the RATP in 2007, he is member of the US Métro (Union sportive métropolitaine des transports).[1]
He is born in a family of wrestlers: his father is a referee and his mother is a club manager. His brother Christophe and sisters also practice wrestling.[2]
At the age of 22, he gave France its first gold medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he attempted to defend his gold medal. In the quarter-finals, he was declared the winner against the reigning world champion, Saeid Abdevali of Iran, in what was widely regarded as a controversial decision by the referee and judges.[3][4] Guénot, however, was defeated in the semifinal by the eventual champion and ended up winning the bronze medal.
His brother, Christophe Guénot, also won a bronze medal in the -74 kg category.
References
External links
- Steeve Guénot at the International Wrestling Database
- Steeve Guénot at Olympics.com
- Steeve Guénot at Olympedia
- Steeve Guénot at the French Olympic and Sports Committee (archived) (in French)
- Steeve Guénot at Team France (in French)
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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
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