Jakob Brendel

Jakob Brendel (September 18, 1907 in Speyer - 13 February 1964) was a German wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.

Olympics

Brendel competed at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.^[1]

Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman bantamweight

1924 Eduard Pütsep (EST) 1928 Kurt Leucht (GER) 1932 Jakob Brendel (GER) 1936 Márton Lőrincz (HUN) 1948 Kurt Pettersén (SWE) 1952 Imre Hódos (HUN) 1956 Konstantin Vyrupayev (URS) 1960 Oleg Karavayev (URS) 1964 Masamitsu Ichiguchi (JPN) 1968 János Varga (HUN) 1972 Rustam Kazakov (URS) 1976 Pertti Ukkola (FIN) 1980 Shamil Serikov (URS) 1984 Pasquale Passarelli (FRG) 1988 András Sike (HUN) 1992 An Han-bong (KOR) 1996 Yuriy Melnichenko (KAZ) 2000 Armen Nazaryan (BUL) 2004 István Majoros (HUN) 2008 Nazyr Mankiev (RUS) 2012 Hamid Sourian (IRI) 2016 Ismael Borrero (CUB)

−58 kg (1924–1928) −56 kg (1932–1936) −57 kg (1948–1996) −58 kg (2000) −55 kg (2004–2012) −59 kg (2016–Present)

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