"So It Happened Historically?": Yakov Punkin

Zaporizhzhia Television, 2011. Studio, episode of the program "So It Happened Historically?" dedicated to Greco-Roman wrestling, as well as famous athletes Yakov Punkin, Denis Silantyev and Armen Vardanyan.

On the video: features of Greco-Roman wrestling, history of the sport; biographies of Yakov Punkin and Armen Vardanyan; thematic discussion.

Studio guests: Honored Master of Sports of Ukraine in Athletics Kostyantyn Rurak; Head of the Zaporizhzhia Branch of the Olympic Committee of Ukraine Volodymyr Lobanov; Representative of the city federation in Greco-Roman wrestling Valery Smirnov; Yakov Punkin's son, Master of Sports in Greco-Roman wrestling Grigory Punkin.

Host — Candidate of Historical Sciences Valery Kozyrev.

Part of the comments — in russian.

Reference: Yakiv Punkin is a Ukrainian Greco-Roman wrestler, Olympic champion of the XV Olympic Games in Helsinki in the featherweight category. The first Olympic champion among Ukrainian wrestlers, five-time champion of the USSR, Honored Master of Sports of the USSR. After completing his sports career, he worked as a coach in Zaporizhia, raising a generation of wrestlers.