Talk:Wrestling at the 1990 Goodwill Games
USSR vs Turkey (individual match) - Elmadi Zhabrailov won the gold medal in the men's freestyle 82 kg.
editJULY 29, 1990
Chaos rules wrestling finals
edit"Monday and the Soviets' Elmandi Jabrailov were both assessed three cautions and disqualified from their gold-medal match. That result condemned the American to a bronze and allowed the Soviet to wrestle again against Turkey's Sebhattin Ozturk for the gold medal, which he won."
Tschin As (talk) 13:20, 5 September 2023 (UTC)
Joe Melchiore
editJoe Melchiore (born in 1966) is an American freestyle wrestler and wrestling coach.
Highlight achievements
- 1990 US National Champion, 57 kilogram.
Joe Melchiore defeated the 1989 NCAA Division I Wrestling Championship's winner Kendall Cross.
- 1986 Big 8 Conference Champion, 48 kilogram.
Joe Melchiore defeated Perry Summit 10-9.
- 1983 World Junior Champion, 56 kilogram.
1. Joe Melchiore (USA) 2. Aigumov Khadjimagomed (USSR) 3. Goh Young-Ho (Korea) 4. Akhmet Ak (Turkey) 5. Juergen Ketterer (West Germany)
- Joe Melchiore also competed at the 1990 World Wrestling Championships where he placed seventh (he won the Olympic champion and the two-time European champion Shaban Trstena of Yugoslavia by fall).
2A00:1FA3:4230:E2CC:103E:7F6:C4F:5989 (talk) 12:10, 13 September 2023 (UTC)