Ignazio Fabra

Ignazio Fabra
Personal information
Born 25 April 1930
Palermo, Italy
Died 13 April 2008 (aged 77)
Genoa, Italy
Height 161 cm (5 ft 3 in)
Weight 51 kg (112 lb)
Sport
Sport Greco-Roman wrestling
Club Società Sportiva Calvaruso Palermo
GS Italsider Genova

Ignazio Fabra (25 April 1930 – 13 April 2008) is a flyweight Greco-Roman wrestler from Italy. He won a world title in 1955 and finished second at the 1952 and 1956 Olympics and 1962 and 1963 world championships. He placed fourth-fifth at the 1960 and 1964 Olympics.[1]

Fabra was deaf since birth and communicated by signs. He was winning the 1952 Olympic final against Boris Gurevich, but then misinterpreted a gesture of his coach, went into an attack, and got caught up in a counter-attack. After winning the 1955 world title he was a heavy favorite at the 1956 games, but lost in the final to Nikolay Solovyov due to a knee injury. Fabra retired in the late 1960s and became a wrestling coach. He led the national wrestling team at the 1969 World Games of the Deaf and prepared the 1972 Olympic medalist Giuseppe Bognanni.[2]

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