Vlado Lisjak

Vlado Lisjak (born 29 April 1962 in Petrinja) is a former Croatian Greco-Roman wrestler who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics for Yugoslavia. He won gold in the 68 kg category, beating Tapio Sipilä in the final.

Because of his feat he won the Croatian Sportsman of the Year award in 1984.

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Olympic Champions in Greco-Roman lightweight

1908: Enrico Porro (ITA) 1912: Emil Väre (FIN) 1920: Emil Väre (FIN) 1924: Oskari Friman (FIN) 1928: Lajos Keresztes (HUN) 1932: Erik Malmberg (SWE) 1936: Lauri Koskela (FIN) 1948: Gustav Freij (SWE) 1952: Shazam Safin (URS) 1956: Kyösti Lehtonen (FIN) 1960: Avtandil Koridze (URS) 1964: Kazım Ayvaz (TUR) 1968: Muneji Munemura (JPN) 1972: Shamil Khisamutdinov (URS) 1976: Suren Nalbandyan (URS) 1980: Ştefan Rusu (ROM) 1984: Vlado Lisjak (YUG) 1988: Levon Julfalakyan (URS) 1992: Attila Repka (HUN) 1996: Ryszard Wolny (POL) 2000: Filiberto Azcuy (CUB) 2004: Farid Mansurov (AZE) 2008: Steeve Guénot (FRA) 2012: Kim Hyeon-woo (KOR) 2016: Davor Štefanek (SRB)

−66.6 kg (1908) −67.5 kg (1912–1928) −66 kg (1932–1936) −67 kg (1948–1960) −70 kg (1964–1968) −68 kg (1972–1996) −69 kg (2000) −66 kg (2004–Present)

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