Varteres Samourgachev

Varteres Varteresovich Samourgachev ( _ru. Вартерес Вартересович Самургашев; born September 13, 1979 in Rostov-on-Don) is a Russian wrestler who won a gold medal at the 2000 Olympics in Sydney, and a bronze medal at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He is a lawyer by profession.

Medals won

Samourgachev won gold at the 2000 Olympics in the Greco-Roman Featherweight 63kg weight class.Samourgachev also won a bronze medal for Greco-Roman 74kg wrestling at the 2004 Olympics. He was in the final ranking, bronze final, semifinal bout 2, Elimination Pool E Ranking, and Elimination Pool E.

Samourgachev has also been world champion twice (2002 and 2005). In April 2006, in Moscow, he became European champion for the first time.

External links

* [http://www.databaseolympics.com/players/playerpage.htm?ilkid=SAMOUVAR01 Data Base Olympics has info on him.]
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/olympics_2004/wrestling/results/3532786.stm From BBC.]
* [http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/olympics/2004/schedules/224185ByEvent.html From SI.COM]
* [http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/files/olympics/2004/WGM074.html?SITE=DCWAP2&SECTION=OLYMPICS Look here for Olympic Coverage]
* [http://nbcolympics.com The full Turin coverage.]
* [http://news.billinge.com/sport1/hi/olympics2000/other_sports/942885.stm News coverage of the Russian team and other teams in wrestling competition]
* [http://www.howard-winn.k12.ia.us/projects/classics/adv8/wrestling_cs/olympicgreco.html A center about the different people who won at the Greco-Roman competition.]