Roger Bielle

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Roger Bielle (born August 26, 1928 in Mérignac , Gironde department , † November 2014 ) was a French wrestler .

Career

Roger Bielle began wrestling as a youth at the sports club Club de l'Esperance de Merignac . His first coach there was Roger Molina. In 1949 he moved to Bordeaux . He worked in both styles, Greco-Roman and free style. At the end of the 1940s he was one of the best French wrestlers in these featherweight and lightweight styles. In 1949 he finished 3rd in the French championship in the Greco-Roman style featherweight. In 1951 he was the first French champion. He achieved this title in the free style in the lightweight. By the end of his unusually long career, he won a total of 17 other French championship titles by 1962.

His international career began in 1950 at the World Cup in Greco-Roman style in Stockholm . Still inexperienced, he suffered two defeats there in featherweight and came in 12th place.

By 1962, Roger Bielle started regularly at the World Championships and in 1952, 1956 and 1960 also in the wrestling competitions at the Olympic Games in Helsinki , Melbourne and Rome . The best placings he achieved was a 4th place at the World Championships in free style in 1951 in Helsinki and in Greco-Roman style in 1955 in Karlsruhe . In Karlsruhe he got four wins in featherweight, u. a. also about the strong wrestlers Umberto Trippa from Italy and Joseph Mewis from Belgium .

1956 won Roger Bielle in Hof (Saale) in an international match France against the FRG against Heinz Heller from Hof ​​just on points.

He achieved further good placements at the World Championships in Tehran in 1959 and in Toledo in 1962 , where he finished 8th.

In 1960 and 1962 he was on the French national wrestling team, which fought against the Federal Republic of Germany . He lost to Klaus Rost from Witten and Edmund Seger from Freiburg on points.

Roger Bielle, along with René Chesneau, was without a doubt one of the dominant wrestlers in France in the 1950s. After the end of his wrestling career, he worked for many years as a coach in the French wrestling association.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, at that time up to 62 kg or 67 kg body weight)

  • 1953, 12th place , World Cup in Naples , GR, Le, with a victory over Ferdinand Philippi, Saarland a . Losses against Tevfik Yüce , Turkey a. Giuseppe Pirazzoli, Italy ;
  • 1955, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Barcelona , F, Le, before Bruno Granaiola, Italy a. Tevfik Yuce;
  • 1956, 1st place , tournament in Heusweiler , F, Le, before Karl Scherm, FRG , Mehmet Güloglu, Turkey, Madsen, Denmark a. Rook, GDR ;
  • 1959, 2nd place , Mediterranean Games in Beirut , F, Le, behind Celebi, Turkey a. off Manganas, Greece ;
  • 1959, 2nd place , Mediterranean Games in Beirut, GR, Le, behind Rıza Doğan , Turkey a. off Balbaa, Egypt;
  • 1960, 12th place , OS in Rome , F, Le, with a victory over Amin Nazem, Lebanon a . Loughs to Raymond Loughead, Canada a . Mohamed Astraf-Din;
  • 1962, 8th place , World Championships in Toledo, GR, Le, with victories over Nikolaos Simandiras, Greece a . Raul Romero, Argentina , a tie against Kjeld Madsen, Denmark a. a loss to James Burke , USA

swell

  • Professional journal Athletics , numbers: 8/1950, 10/11/1951, 7/8/1952, 9/10/1953, 12/1954, 9/10/1955, 14/1955, 24/1956, 1/2/1957 , 15/16/1958, 23/1959, 18/19/1060
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages O-46, O-65 u. W-44

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Roger Bielle. Retrieved February 24, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Bielle, Roger
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH August 26, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Mérignac , Gironde department
DATE OF DEATH November 2014