Viktor Nemeš

Viktor Nemeš

Personal information
Born	21 September 1993 (1993-09-21) (age 25) Senta, FR Yugoslavia
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
Country	Serbia
Sport	Wrestling
Event(s)	Greco-Roman
Medal record World Championships 2017 Paris 75 kg European Championships 2016 Riga 75 kg 2018 Kaspiysk 77 kg European Games 2015 Baku 75 kg

Viktor Nemeš (Serbian Cyrillic: Виктор Немеш, Hungarian: Nemes Viktor, born September 21, 1993 in Senta, FR Yugoslavia) is a Serbian Greco-Roman wrestler of Hungarian ethnicity. His twin brother Mate Nemeš is also a wrestler.

Biography

Nemeš represented Serbia at the first ever European Games and was the first competitor for Serbia to win a medal at the 2015 European Games when he won his silver medal, losing to the Azerbaijani Elvin Mursaliyev.^[1]

Nemeš won a silver medal at the 2016 Riga European Championships in March. He also represented Serbia at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brasil but he lost in the quarterfinals to the eventual silver medallist Mark Madsen of Denmark. Two years later, Nemeš won his second European silver medal at the 2018 European Wrestling Championships in Russia. He faced the two-time Olympic champion and home favourite Roman Vlasov in the final, where he eventually lost 1-5.^[2]

At the 2017 World Wrestling Championships in Paris, Nemeš edged the 2016 Summer Olympics bronze medallist Saeid Abdevali of Iran in the opening round and later defeated the Russian wrestler Aleksandr Chekhirkin in the gold medal final, with a score of 4-1. This triumph brought him his first world medal and Nemeš became the second world wrestling champion from the independent Serbia, after Davor Štefanek's world title in 2014.^[3]

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