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Shaban Trstena

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Shaban Trstena (Albanian: Shaban Tërstena, Macedonian: Шабан Трстена, romanized: Šaban Trstena; born 1 January 1965) is an Albanian former freestyle wrestler from North Macedonia. Trstena won the gold medal at the 1984 Olympics in Los Angeles and also won the silver medal at the 1988 Olympics in Seoul. Trstena is currently the youngest to win any wrestling gold at the Olympics, being 19 years of age at the Los Angeles Olympics. He would win in his wrestling career the 1984 European Championship and the 1990 European Wrestling Championship in Poznan. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2024). Shaban Trstena is the 288th most popular wrestler (up from 538th in 2024), the 63rd most popular biography from North Macedonia (up from 102nd in 2019) and the most popular Macedonian Wrestler.

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Among WRESTLERS

Among wrestlers, Shaban Trstena ranks 288 out of 1,027. Before him are Bayley, Søren Marinus Jensen, Ahmet Kireççi, Tatyana Petrenko-Samusenko, Martti Nieminen, and The Fabulous Moolah. After him are Lou Albano, Vítězslav Mácha, Yaşar Erkan, Ivan Koloff, Shohachi Ishii, and Bianca Belair.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1965, Shaban Trstena ranks 378. Before him are Jens Albinus, Stefan Schwarzmann, Omid Djalili, Paige Turco, David Vincent, and Yutaka Ozaki. After him are David S. Goyer, Cecilia Bolocco, John Jensen, Kenta Hasegawa, Hiroshi Hirakawa, and Michelle Forbes.

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In North Macedonia

Among people born in North Macedonia, Shaban Trstena ranks 63 out of 156. Before him are Gjoko Hadžievski (1955), Ilinka Mitreva (1950), Kiril Dojčinovski (1943), Dušanka Sifnios (1933), Ljupčo Jordanovski (1953), and Gjorgji Abadžiev (1910). After him are Hristijan Mickoski (1977), Goce Sedloski (1974), Blagoja Georgievski (1950), Veselin Vuković (1958), Ljubčo Georgievski (1966), and Blazhe Ilijoski (1984).

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Among WRESTLERS In North Macedonia

Among wrestlers born in North Macedonia, Shaban Trstena ranks 1. 

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