Medal record | ||
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Men's freestyle wrestling | ||
Representing the Soviet Union | ||
Olympic Games | ||
1968 Mexico City | Middleweight | |
World Championships | ||
1961 Yokohama | Freestyle -87 kg | |
1967 Delhi | Freestyle -87 kg | |
1969 Mar del Plata | Freestyle -90 kg | |
European Championships | ||
1967 Istanbul | Freestyle -87 kg | |
1970 Berlin | Freestyle -90 kg |
Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (also Gurevitch, Gurewitsch, or Hurevych; 23 February 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a Soviet wrestler.[1][2]
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.[3]
Gurevich, who was Jewish, was born in Kiev, Ukraine.[1][2]
Gurevich won the 1968 Summer Olympic Games freestyle middleweight (191.5 lbs; 82 kilograms) gold medal in Mexico City.[1][2][4] He finished ahead of silver medalist Jigjidiin Mönkhbat of Mongolia and bronze medalist Prodan Gardzhev of Bulgaria.[5][6]
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.[1]
He was inducted into the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame in 1982.[4]