Gennady Korban

Olympic wrestler

Gennadi Korban · 겐나디 코르반

Born

1 February 1949, Engels

Citizenship

Russia, Soviet Union

Sport

amateur wrestling, Greco-Roman wrestling

Occupation

amateur wrestler

Height

175 cm (5 ft 9 in)

Weight

82 kg (181 lb)

Team / club

Burevestnik, KSV Köllerbach

Gennady Vladimirovich Korban (Russian: Геннадий Владимирович Корбан; born 9 February 1949) is a retired middleweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Russia. Between 1979 and 1981 he won two world titles, two European titles, two Soviet titles, and an Olympic gold medal.

Korban took up wrestling in 1962 and won a gold medal at the 1973 Summer Universiade. He retired in the early 1980s to work as a wrestling coach, first in Russia and then in Germany, where he immigrated after the dissolution of the Soviet Union. Since 2007, an annual wrestling tournament in his honor has been held in his birth town of Engels.

Competitions

Awards and honours

• Honoured Master of Sports of the USSR
• Order of Friendship of Peoples

External links

• Wikipedia
• Wikidata

Facts from Wikidata Q1368914 (CC0); quoted introduction from English Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Data retrieved 2026-10-22.

Data: Wikidata (CC0 1.0); Wikipedia (English) (CC BY-SA 4.0). Retrieved 2026-10-22.