Boris Gurevich (wrestler, born 1937)

This article is about the Soviet wrestler born in 1937. For the Soviet wrestler born in 1931, see Boris Gurevich (wrestler, born 1931).

Boris Mikhaylovich Gurevich (also Gurevitch, Gurewitsch, or Hurevych; 23 February 1937 – 12 November 2020) was a Soviet wrestler.^[1][2]

Boris Gurevich

Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing the  Soviet Union
Olympic Games
	1968 Mexico City	87 kg
World Championships
	1967 Delhi	87 kg
	1969 Mar del Plata	90 kg
	1961 Yokohama	87 kg
European Championships
	1967 Istanbul	87 kg
	1970 Berlin	90 kg

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][4]

Gurevich, who was Jewish, was born in Kiev, Ukraine.^[1][2]

Career

Gurevich won the 1968 Summer Olympic Games freestyle middleweight (191.5 lbs; 82 kilograms) gold medal in Mexico City.^[1][2][5] He finished ahead of silver medalist Jigjidiin Mönkhbat of Mongolia and bronze medalist Prodan Gardzhev of Bulgaria.^[6][7]

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.^[5]

See also

• List of select Jewish wrestlers