Russell Vis
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| Born | June 22, 1900 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Died | April 1, 1990 (aged 89) San Diego, California, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
| Home town | Portland, Oregon, U.S. | ||||||||||||||
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Russell John Vis (June 22, 1900 – April 1, 1990) was an American amateur and professional wrestler. He spent his youth in Portland, Oregon, where he started wrestling with the same instructor who taught the legendary wrestler Robin Reed. Before the Olympics, Vis was an AAU national champion. He competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he received a gold medal in the freestyle lightweight division.[1][2] Vis then wrestled professionally as a welterweight for three years, but quickly grew tired of the professional circuit and retired in 1930.[3] In 1977, Vis was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.[4]
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ "1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Wrestling" Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 28, 2008)
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- ^ Russell Vis. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 17, 2022.
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Categories:
- 1900 births
- 1990 deaths
- Wrestlers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- American male sport wrestlers
- American male professional wrestlers
- Olympic gold medalists for the United States in wrestling
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Martial artists from Grand Rapids, Michigan
- 20th-century American sportsmen
- American wrestling Olympic medalist stubs