Yang Jung-mo

Yang Jung-mo

Yang in 1976
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place1976 Montreal62 kg
World Championships
Silver medal – second place1978 Mexico City62 kg
Bronze medal – third place1975 Minsk62 kg
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place1978 Bangkok62 kg
Gold medal – first place1974 Teheran62 kg

Yang Jung-Mo (Korean: 양정모; Hanja: 梁正模; born January 22, 1953) is a retired South Korean Olympic freestyle wrestler and the first Olympic champion from South Korea. He was born in Busan, South Korea. He received a gold medal in the featherweight division of wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.

Olympic results

Source:

1976 (as a men's freestyle 62 kg)

He won gold medal according to special criteria for determining the winner:

References

  1. ↑ "1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Wrestling". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved April 7, 2008.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yang Jeong-Mo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
  3. ↑ "Featherweight, Freestyle (≤62 kilograms), Men". Retrieved 2025-06-14.