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Richárd Weisz

1879 - 1945

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Richárd Weisz (also known as Richárd Vértesi; 30 April 1879 – 4 December 1945) was a Hungarian heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He competed at the 1906 Intercalated Games and at the 1908 Summer Olympics and won a gold medal in 1908. Weisz was born in Budapest, Hungary, and was Jewish. He trained in athletics and rowing before changing to wrestling. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Richárd Weisz is the 82nd most popular wrestler (up from 121st in 2019), the 406th most popular biography from Hungary (up from 557th in 2019) and the most popular Hungarian Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Richárd Weisz ranks 82 out of 1,027. Before him are Chiyonofuji Mitsugu, Rudolf Svensson, Wade Barrett, Kevin Nash, Roddy Piper, and Vladimir Kozlov. After him are Dave Schultz, The Boogeyman, Yasuhiro Yamashita, Mustafa Dağıstanlı, Takehide Nakatani, and Ibrahim Moustafa.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1879, Richárd Weisz ranks 138. Before him are Agnes Arber, Ion G. Duca, José Millán-Astray, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Harry Kerr, and Thành Thái. After him are Philippe Gaubert, Mostafa El-Nahas, Pavel Bazhov, Walery Sławek, Vittorio Ambrosio, and Wu Lien-teh. Among people deceased in 1945, Richárd Weisz ranks 242. Before him are Hélène Berr, Arthur Wynne, Princess Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen, Ángel Melogno, Alexander Khatisian, and Albert Tyler. After him are Dmitry Karbyshev, Demyan Bedny, John Curtin, Karl Leisner, Dorothea Köring, and Archduchess Karoline Marie of Austria.

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In Hungary

Among people born in Hungary, Richárd Weisz ranks 406 out of 1,077. Before him are Péter Boross (1928), Lipót Fejér (1880), Tibor Déry (1894), Zoltán Kocsis (1952), Péter Tóth (1882), and Lajos Baróti (1914). After him are Gyula Krúdy (1878), Flóra Kádár (1928), József Nagy (1892), Gergely Kulcsár (1934), Móric Esterházy (1881), and Catherine Schell (1944).

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Among WRESTLERS In Hungary

Among wrestlers born in Hungary, Richárd Weisz ranks 1. After him are József Csatári (1943), László Papp (1905), István Kozma (1939), Ödön Zombori (1906), Ferenc Kiss (1942), Ferenc Seres (1945), Imre Hódos (1928), László Réczi (1947), Ferenc Kocsis (1953), Norbert Növényi (1957), and Csaba Hegedűs (1948).

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