Mijaín López

Mijaín López
López at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameMijaín López Núñez
Nickname(s)
The Kid, El Terrible, The Giant of Herradura
Born (1982-08-20) 20 August 1982
Height1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
Weight131.5 kg (290 lb)
Sport
Country Cuba
SportWrestling
Event
Greco-Roman
ClubCerro Pelado
Coached byPedro Val
Medal record
Men's wrestling
Representing  Cuba
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Olympic Games 5 0 0
World Championship 5 3 0
World Cup 3 0 0
World University Championship 1 0 0
Pan American Games 5 0 0
Central American and Caribbean Games 3 0 0
Pan American Championship 9 1 0
Grand Prix Ivan Poddubny 0 0 1
Junior Pan American Wrestling Championship 2 0 0
Total 33 4 1
Men's Greco-Roman wrestling
Olympic Games
2008 Beijing 120 kg
2012 London 120 kg
2016 Rio de Janeiro 130 kg
2020 Tokyo 130 kg
2024 Paris 130 kg
World Championships
2005 Budapest 120 kg
2007 Baku 120 kg
2009 Herning 120 kg
2010 Moscow 120 kg
2014 Tashkent 130 kg
2006 Guangzhou 120 kg
2011 Istanbul 120 kg
2015 Las Vegas 130 kg
World Cup
2005 Tehran 120 kg
2006 Budapest 120 kg
2009 Clermont-Ferrand 120 kg
World University Championships
2005 Izmir 120 kg
Pan American Games
2003 Santo Domingo 120 kg
2007 Rio de Janeiro 120 kg
2011 Guadalajara 120 kg
2015 Toronto 130 kg
2019 Lima 130 kg
Central American and Caribbean Games
2014 San Juan 130 kg
2014 Veracruz 130 kg
2018 Barranquilla 130 kg
Pan American Championships
2002 Maracaibo 120 kg
2004 Guatemala City 120 kg
2005 Guatemala City 120 kg
2006 Rio de Janeiro 120 kg
2007 San Salvador 120 kg
2008 Colorado Springs 120 kg
2009 Maracaibo 120 kg
2012 Colorado Springs 120 kg
2014 Mexico City 130 kg
2003 Guatemala City 120 kg
Junior Pan American Championships
2002 Bogota 120 kg
Men's freestyle wrestling
Junior Pan American Championships
2002 Bogota 120 kg

Mijaín López Núñez (born 20 August 1982) is a Cuban retired Greco-Roman wrestler. Widely considered one of the greatest wrestlers of all time, López is a five-time Olympic gold medalist, five-time World Champion, for a total of 10 world gold medals (second highest, behind Aleksandr Karelin's twelve), and a five-time Pan American Games champion. He is the younger brother of Michel López Núñez, a Cuban amateur boxer. López was Cuba's flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the 2008, 2012, 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, and one of the country's flag bearers at the closing ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics.

Upon winning the gold medal in the Greco-Roman 130 kg event at the 2024 Paris Olympics, López became the first and only athlete in modern Olympics history to win five consecutive gold medals in the same individual event.