Jouko Salomäki
Finnish wrestler (born 1962)
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Full name | Jouko Johannes Salomäki | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1962-08-26) 26 August 1962 (age 62) Kauhajoki, Finland | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jouko Johannes Salomäki (born 26 August 1962 in Kauhajoki) is a Finnish wrestler and Olympic champion in Greco-Roman wrestling. He was nicknamed "Jokke" during his career.
Salomäki competed at the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles where he received the gold medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, in the welterweight class.[1] Salomäki won the World Championship in the same weight class in 1987.
References
- sports-reference
- ^ "1984 Summer Olympics – Los Angeles, United States – Wrestling" Archived 2008-08-27 at the Wayback Machine databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on August 26, 2008)
External links
- Jouko Salomäki at the International Wrestling Database
- Jouko Salomäki at Olympics.com
- Jouko Salomäki at Olympedia
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- 1932: Ivar Johansson (SWE)
- 1936: Rudolf Svedberg (SWE)
- 1948: Gösta Andersson (SWE)
- 1952: Miklós Szilvási (HUN)
- 1956: Mithat Bayrak (TUR)
- 1960: Mithat Bayrak (TUR)
- 1964: Anatoly Kolesov (URS)
- 1968: Rudolf Vesper (GDR)
- 1972: Vítězslav Mácha (TCH)
- 1976: Anatoly Bykov (URS)
- 1980: Ferenc Kocsis (HUN)
- 1984: Jouko Salomäki (FIN)
- 1988: Kim Young-nam (KOR)
- 1992: Mnatsakan Iskandaryan (EUN)
- 1996: Filiberto Azcuy (CUB)
- 2000: Murat Kardanov (RUS)
- 2004: Aleksandr Dokturishvili (UZB)
- 2008: Manuchar Kvirkvelia (GEO)
- 2012: Roman Vlasov (RUS)
- 2016: Roman Vlasov (RUS)
- 2020: Tamás Lőrincz (HUN)
- 2024: Nao Kusaka (JPN)
- 1932–1936: 72 kg
- 1948–1960: 73 kg
- 1964–1968: 78 kg
- 1972–1996: 74 kg
- 2000: 76 kg
- 2004–2012: 74 kg
- 2016: 75 kg
- 2020–present: 77 kg
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