Klaus Rost (2 March 1940 – 10 August 2023) was a German lightweight wrestler. He competed in freestyle wrestling at the 1964, 1968, and 1972 Olympics and won a silver medal in 1964. In Greco-Roman wrestling he won a bronze medal at the 1963 World Championships, and finished fourth at the 1968 Olympics and 1969 World Championships.
Rost died in Witten on 10 August 2023, at the age of 83.
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1940 births
2023 deaths
Olympic wrestlers for the United Team of Germany
Olympic wrestlers for West Germany
Wrestlers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Wrestlers at the 1972 Summer Olympics
German male sport wrestlers
Recipients of the Silver Laurel Leaf
Olympic silver medalists for the United Team of Germany
Olympic medalists in wrestling
World Wrestling Championships medalists
Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
People from Witten
Sportspeople from Arnsberg (region) 20th-century German people 21st-century German people