Career
López won the Greco-Roman heavyweight title at five consecutive Olympic Games, the first athlete in any individual sport to do so. He retired on the mat in Paris in 2024 immediately after the final, leaving his shoes in the centre circle.
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🤼 Wrestling · Greco-Roman 130 kg
Mijaín López
Cuba · 2005–2024
Five Olympic golds in the same event, across sixteen years.
- 5
- Olympic golds
- 5
- World titles
- 5
- Consecutive Games won
- 20 years
- Career span
Honours
- Olympic gold in 2008, 2012, 2016, 2020 and 2024
- First athlete to win the same individual event at five Games
- Five World Championship titles
- Undefeated at the Olympics across his entire career
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