Shazam Safin
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Olympic Games | ||
1952 Helsinki | Lightweight | |
World Championships | ||
1953 Naples | 67 kg |
Shazam Sergeyevich Safin (Russian: Шазам Серге́евич Сафин, Tatar: Шәзам Сафа улы Сафин; born 17 April 1932 – 1985) was a Soviet wrestler of Tatar heritage who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics. He was born in Kochki-Pozharki, Nizhny Novgorod.
At the USSR championship-1952 Shazam Safin took the third place. According to the classification of that period, this result was not high enough for the title of master of sports to be conferred upon the athlete. To receive the "master of sports" title, the athlete was either to win the USSR national championship or to take second place. However, Safin, a first-grade wrestler, got included into the USSR Olympic team and successfully appeared at the XV Olympic Games winning the gold medal. In final fight he won famous Swedish wrestler Gustav Freij. In the 1953 World Championship in Naples (Italy), Safin received the bronze medal, having lost points to Finnish athlete Lehton. The world champion title in the 67 kg weight class was gained by Frei.
References
- Shazam Safin's profile at Sports Reference.com
- V.S. BELOV Greco-Roman Wrestling. Lines from History
- Biography of Shazam Safin (in Russian)
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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)
- 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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