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Russell Vis

Personal information
Born	(1900-06-22)June 22, 1900 Grand Rapids, Michigan, U.S.
Died	April 1, 1990(1990-04-01) (aged 89) San Diego, California, U.S.
Home town	Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Medal record Men's freestyle wrestling Representing the  United States Olympic Games 1924 Paris 66 kg

Russell John Vis (June 22, 1900 – April 1, 1990) was an American amateur and professional wrestler. He spent his youth in Portland, Oregon, where he started wrestling with the same instructor who taught the legendary wrestler Robin Reed. Before the Olympics, Vis was an AAU national champion. He competed at the 1924 Olympic Games in Paris, where he received a gold medal in the freestyle lightweight division. Vis then wrestled professionally as a welterweight for three years, but quickly grew tired of the professional circuit and retired in 1930. In 1977, Vis was inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame as a Distinguished Member.

References

1. "1924 Summer Olympics – Paris, France – Wrestling" Archived 2007-02-20 at the Wayback Machine – databaseOlympics.com (Retrieved on April 28, 2008)
2. "Russell Vis Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 18, 2020. Retrieved September 9, 2013.
3. Chapman, Mike (1990). Encyclopedia of American Wrestling. Champaign, Illinois: Leisure Press. ISBN 9780880113427.
4. Russell Vis. National Wrestling Hall of Fame. Retrieved September 17, 2022.

v t e Olympic Champions in freestyle lightweight
1904:  Otto Roehm (USA) 1908:  George de Relwyskow (GBR) 1920:  Kalle Anttila (FIN) 1924:  Russell Vis (USA) 1928:  Osvald Käpp (EST) 1932:  Charles Pacôme (FRA) 1936:  Károly Kárpáti (HUN) 1948:  Celal Atik (TUR) 1952:  Olle Anderberg (SWE) 1956:  Emam-Ali Habibi (IRN) 1960:  Shelby Wilson (USA) 1964:  Enyu Valchev (BUL) 1968:  Abdollah Movahed (IRN) 1972:  Dan Gable (USA) 1976:  Pavel Pinigin (URS) 1980:  Saypulla Absaidov (URS) 1984:  You In-tak (KOR) 1988:  Arsen Fadzaev (URS) 1992:  Arsen Fadzaev (EUN) 1996:  Vadim Bogiev (RUS) 2000:  Daniel Igali (CAN) 2004:  Elbrus Tedeyev (UKR) 2008:  Ramazan Şahin (TUR) 2012:  Tatsuhiro Yonemitsu (JPN) 2016:  Soslan Ramonov (RUS) 2020:  Takuto Otoguro (JPN) 2024:  Kotaro Kiyooka (JPN)
1904: 65.77 kg 1908: 66.5 kg 1920–1936: 67.5 kg 1948–1960: 67 kg 1964–1968: 70 kg 1972–1996: 68 kg 2000: 69 kg 2004–2012: 66 kg 2016–present: 65 kg

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