The Most Famous

WRESTLERS from Lebanon

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This page contains a list of the greatest Lebanese Wrestlers. The pantheon dataset contains 1,027 Wrestlers, 1 of which were born in Lebanon. This makes Lebanon the birth place of the 54th most number of Wrestlers behind Greece, and Croatia.

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The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Lebanese Wrestlers of all time. This list of famous Lebanese Wrestlers is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography’s online popularity.

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1. Khalil Taha (1932 - 2020)

With an HPI of 47.08, Khalil Taha is the most famous Lebanese Wrestler.  His biography has been translated into 17 different languages on wikipedia.

Khalil Taha (13 July 1932 – 27 July 2020) was a Lebanese wrestler. He was born in Beirut. At the 1951 Mediterranean Games in Alexandria Egypt, Taha won the silver medal in the 73 kg Greco-Roman wrestling. At the 1952 Summer Olympics, he won the bronze medal in the men's Greco-Roman Welterweight category. He died in Venice, U.S., on 27 July 2020, aged 88.

People

Pantheon has 1 people classified as Lebanese wrestlers born between 1932 and 1932. Of these 1, none of them are still alive today. The most famous deceased Lebanese wrestlers include Khalil Taha.

Deceased Lebanese Wrestlers

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