Yang Jung-mo

In this Korean name, the family name is Yang.

Yang Jung-mo

Yang in 1976
Medal record
Men's freestyle wrestling
Representing  South Korea
Olympic Games
	1976 Montreal	62 kg
World Championships
	1978 Mexico City	62 kg
	1975 Minsk	62 kg
Asian Games
	1978 Bangkok	62 kg
	1974 Teheran	62 kg

Yang Jung-Mo (Korean: 양정모; Hanja: 梁正模; born January 22, 1953) is a retired South Korean Olympic freestyle wrestler and the first Olympic champion from South Korea. He was born in Busan, South Korea. He received a gold medal in the featherweight division of wrestling at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal.^[1][2]

Olympic results

Source:^[3]

1976 (as a men's freestyle 62 kg)

• Defeated Egon Beiler (CAN), won by points (18-7), penalty points - 0,5.
• Defeated Helmut Strumpf (GDR), won by fall, penalty points - 0.
• Defeated Vehbi Akdağ (TUR), won by points (17-6), penalty points - 0,5.
• Defeated Eduard Giray (FRG), won by technical superiority, penalty points - 0.
• Defeated Gene Davis (USA), won by fall, penalty points - 0.
• Lost to the World champion Zevegiin Oidov (MGL), lost by points (8-10), penalty points - 3. Total penalty points - 4.

He won gold medal according to special criteria for determining the winner:

• Gold medal - Yang Jung-Mo (KOR)
• Silver medal - Zevegiin Oidov (MGL)
• Bronze medal - Gene Davis (USA)

References

1. "1976 Summer Olympics – Montreal, Canada – Wrestling". databaseOlympics.com. Archived from the original on 2008-09-17. Retrieved April 7, 2008.
2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yang Jeong-Mo". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2016-12-04. Retrieved 2019-09-30.
3. "Featherweight, Freestyle (≤62 kilograms), Men". Retrieved 2025-06-14.

External links

• Yang Jung-Mo at the International Wrestling Database
• Yang Jung-Mo at Olympics.com
• Yang Jung-Mo at Olympedia
• Jung-Mo Yang at databaseOlympics.com (archived)