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Aleksandr Karelin (russia)

Karelin has 3 gold and 1 silver in Olympic freestyle wrestling. His golds came in Seoul, Barcelona and Atlanta

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Buvaisar Saitiev
(Russia)

The Russian star won three Olympic gold medals in 1996, 2004 and 2008 in 74 kg freestyle wrestling

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Mavlet Batirov
(Russia)

Batirov won his first freestyle Olympic gold medal in 2004 and followed it up with another one in 2008

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Mijain Lopez
(Cuba)

Lopez has dominated the Greco-Roman superheavyweight category at the Olympics. He has three Olympic golds to his name

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Roman Vlasov
(Russia)

Vlasov has won two Olympic gold medals in the Greco-Roman event. He secured the wins in London and Rio de Janeiro

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Sharif Sharifov (Azerbaijan)

Sharifov won a gold medal at the London Olympics in 2012. He went on to win bronze at Rio in 2016

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Elbrus Tedeyev
(Ukraine)

After winning the bronze medal at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, Tedeyev won gold at Athens in 2004

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Vladimer Khinchegashvili (Georgia)

Khinchegashvili won silver in the London Olympics and in Rio de Janeiro, he claimed his first Olympic gold

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Kim Hyeon-woo
(South Korea)

Hyeon-woo won gold in 2012 Olympics in the Greco-Roman lightweight. He shifted to welterweight in Rio and won a bronze

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Artur Aleksanyan
(USA)

Aleksanyan won bronze in the London Olympics in the Greco-Roman heavyweight category. He won his first Olympic gold at Rio

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