Muneji Munemura
Japanese wrestler (born 1943)
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1968 Mexico City | Lightweight |
Muneji Munemura (宗村 宗二, Munemura Muneji) (born October 1, 1943) is a Japanese wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling.
Career
He finished fourth both at the 1965 and 1966 World Wrestling Championships.[1]
Munemura competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City where he received a gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the lightweight class.[2]
References
External links
- Muneji Munemura at the International Wrestling Database
- Muneji Munemura at Olympedia
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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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