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 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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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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