| Medal record | ||
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| Men's freestyle wrestling | ||
Representing the  Soviet Union
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Olympic Games
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1968 Mexico City | Middleweight |
| World Championships | ||
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1961 Yokohama | Freestyle -87 kg |
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1967 Delhi | Freestyle -87 kg |
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1969 Mar del Plata | Freestyle -90 kg |
| European Championships | ||
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1967 Istanbul | Freestyle -87 kg |
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1970 Berlin | Freestyle -90 kg |
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (also Gurevitch, Gurewitsch, or Hurevych; 23 February 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a Soviet wrestler.
The figure of Boris Gurevich served as a model for the allegorical sculpture of the Soviet sculptor Yevgeny Vuchetich "Let's Forge Swords into Plowshares", installed in 1957 in New York near the UN building.
Gurevich, who was Jewish, was born in Kiev, Ukraine.
Career
Gurevich won the 1968 Summer Olympic Games freestyle middleweight (191.5 lbs; 82 kilograms) gold medal in Mexico City. He finished ahead of silver medalist Jigjidiin Mönkhbat of Mongolia and bronze medalist Prodan Gardzhev of Bulgaria.
He won a silver medal at the 1961 World Wrestling Championships at 87 kilograms, a gold medal at the 1967 World Wrestling Championships at 87 kilograms, and a gold medal at the 1969 World Wrestling Championships at 90 kilograms. He won a gold medal at the 1967 European Wrestling Championships at 87 kilograms, and a gold medal at the 1970 European Wrestling Championships at 90 kilograms.
He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1982.
See also
References
- ^ "Boris Michail Gurevitch". JewishSports.net. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- ^ Joseph M. Siegman (1992). The International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame. SP Books. ISBN 1-56171-028-8. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- Какой спортсмен послужил прообразом скульптуры "Перекуем мечи на орала"?
- "Olympedia – Boris Gurevich". www.olympedia.org. Retrieved 2024-11-12.
- ^ "Boris Gurevitch". JewsInSports.org. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Wrestling at the 1968 Ciudad de México Summer Games: Men's Middleweight, Freestyle". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved October 25, 2011.
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Borys Mykhailovych Hurevych (Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich)". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.
External links
- Boris Michailowitsch Gurewitsch at the International Wrestling Database
- Boris Gurevich at Olympics.com
- Boris Gurevich at Olympedia (archive)
- Boris Gurevich at databaseOlympics.com (archived)
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- 1937 births
- 2020 deaths
- Olympic wrestlers for the Soviet Union
- Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Soviet male sport wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for the Soviet Union
- Olympic medalists in wrestling
- Ukrainian male sport wrestlers
- Jewish sport wrestlers
- Soviet Jews
- Jewish Ukrainian sportspeople
- Sportspeople from Kyiv
- Medalists at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Honoured Masters of Sport of the USSR
- International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame inductees
- National University of Ukraine on Physical Education and Sport alumni
- 20th-century Ukrainian sportsmen