Mirko Englich
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born |
28 August 1978 Witten, Germany | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 102 kg (225 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Wrestling | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Greco-Roman | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club |
1. SC Luckenwalde Luckenwalde RSV Hansa 90 Frankfurt Oder | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by |
Joern Levermann Maik Bullmann | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||||
.svg.png){kind=icon}
Mirko Englich (born 28 August 1978) is a German Greco-Roman wrestler. He won two silver medals at the European Wrestling Championships in 2003 and 2008. Englich won a silver medal at the 2008 Summer Olympics. He defeated U.S.A's Adam Wheeler in the semi-finals to face Russia's Aslanbek Khushtov.[1]
He was married to national champion Yvonne Englich, and they had two children. She died in January 2018, following a lengthy battle with cancer, at age 38.[2]
References
- ↑ "Mirko Englich Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 2018-01-09.
- ↑ "Wittener Top-Sportlerin Yvonne Englich stirbt mit 38 Jahren" [Wittener top athlete Yvonne Englich dies at the age of 38]. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung (in German). Retrieved 8 January 2018.
This article is issued from
Wikipedia.
The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike.
Additional terms may apply for the media files.