Eduard Popp Explained

Eduard Popp
Birth Place:Barnaul, Russian SFSR
Height:190 cm
Weight:128 kg
Sport:Greco-Roman wrestling
Club:Red DEVILS Heilbronn
Coach:Marcus Mackamul

Eduard Popp (born 16 June 1991) is a Russian-born German heavyweight Greco-Roman wrestler. He won the national title in 2013 and 2014 and reached semifinals at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

In 2020, he competed in the men's 130 kg event at the 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup held in Belgrade, Serbia.[1] In 2021, he won one of the bronze medals in his event at the 2021 Wladyslaw Pytlasinski Cup held in Warsaw, Poland.[2] [3] He also competed in the men's 130 kg event at the 2020 Summer Olympics held in Tokyo, Japan.

Personal life

When Popp was two years old, his family moved from Barnaul to Germany. In 1997, he took up Greco-Roman wrestling in the German city of Möckmühl. He is married and the father of two children.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2020 Individual Wrestling World Cup Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20201218212337/https://unitedworldwrestling.org/sites/default/files/2020-12/2020-iwc-belgrade-final-book.pdf . 18 December 2020 . 18 December 2020 . United World Wrestling.
  2. News: Rowbottom . Mike . 12 June 2021 . Levai misses gold after beating double Olympic champion Vlasov at UWW Poland Open . InsideTheGames.biz . 4 July 2021.
  3. Web site: 2021 Poland Open Results Book . live . https://web.archive.org/web/20210704164819/https://uww.org/sites/default/files/2021-06/results_06_warsaw.pdf . 4 July 2021 . 4 July 2021 . United World Wrestling.