Jump to content

Nicu Vlad: Difference between revisions

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Browse history interactively
← Previous editNext edit →
Content deleted Content added
VisualWikitext
No edit summary
→‎Biography: Eliminate obscure abbreviation
(41 intermediate revisions by 21 users not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:
{{short description|Romanian weightlifter}}
{{Short description|Romanian weightlifter (born 1963)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2016}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
{{Infobox sportsperson
Line 13: Line 13:
|Location = center
|Location = center
}}
}}
|birth_date={{birth-date and age|df=yes|1 November 1963}}
|birth_date={{birth-date and age|1 November 1963}}
|birth_place=[[Piscu]], [[Romania]]<ref name=sr>[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vl/nicu-vlad-1.html Nicu Vlad]. Sports-reference</ref>
|birth_place=[[Piscu]], [[Romania]]<ref name=sr>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418000006/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/vl/nicu-vlad-1.html Nicu Vlad]. Sports-reference</ref>
|death_date=
|death_date=
|death_place=
|death_place=
Line 28: Line 28:
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1984 World Weightlifting Championships|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[1984 World Weightlifting Championships|-90 kg]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1984 World Weightlifting Championships|1984 Los Angeles]] | [[1984 World Weightlifting Championships|-90 kg]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1985 World Weightlifting Championships|1985 Sodertelje]] | [[1985 World Weightlifting Championships|-100 kg]]}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1985 World Weightlifting Championships|1985 Södertälje]] | [[1985 World Weightlifting Championships|-100 kg]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1986 World Weightlifting Championships|1986 Sofia]] | [[1986 World Weightlifting Championships|-100 kg]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1986 World Weightlifting Championships|1986 Sofia]] | [[1986 World Weightlifting Championships|-100 kg]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1987 World Weightlifting Championships|1987 Ostrava]] | [[1987 World Weightlifting Championships|-100 kg]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1987 World Weightlifting Championships|1987 Ostrava]] | [[1987 World Weightlifting Championships|-100 kg]]}}
Line 42: Line 42:
{{MedalCountry|{{AUS}}}}
{{MedalCountry|{{AUS}}}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|Commonwealth Games]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1994 Commonwealth Games|1994 Victoria]] | [[Weightlifting at the 1994 Commonwealth Games|-108 kg]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1994 Commonwealth Games|1994 Victoria]] | [[Weightlifting at the 1994 Commonwealth Games|-108 kg - Overall]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1994 Commonwealth Games|1994 Victoria]] | [[Weightlifting at the 1994 Commonwealth Games|-108 kg - Snatch]]}}
{{MedalGold| [[1994 Commonwealth Games|1994 Victoria]] | [[Weightlifting at the 1994 Commonwealth Games|-108 kg - Clean and Jerk]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Weightlifting Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1994 World Weightlifting Championships|1994 Istanbul]] | [[1994 World Weightlifting Championships|-108 kg]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1994 World Weightlifting Championships|1994 Istanbul]] | [[1994 World Weightlifting Championships|-108 kg]]}}
}}
}}


'''Nicolae "Nicu" Vlad''' (born 1 November 1963) is a retired heavyweight weightlifter from [[Romania]]. He competed for Romania at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. He won the world title in 1984, 1986 and 1990 and European title in 1985 and 1986 and set world records in the [[snatch (weightlifting)|snatch]] in 1986 and 1993.<ref name=chid/> Between 1991 and 1996 he lived in Australia and competed for it internationally.<ref name=sr/> In 2006 he was elected member of the [[International Weightlifting Federation]] [[Hall of fame|Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Weightlifting Hall of Fame|publisher=International Weightlifting Federation|url=http://www.iwf.net/focus-on-iwf/hall-of-fame/members/}}</ref>
'''Nicolae "Nicu" Vlad''' (born 1 November 1963) is a retired heavyweight weightlifter from [[Romania]]. He competed for Romania at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. He won the world title in 1984, 1986 and 1990 and European title in 1985 and 1986 and set world records in the [[snatch (weightlifting)|snatch]] in 1986 and 1993.<ref name=chid/> Between 1991 and 1996, he lived in Australia and competed for it internationally.<ref name=sr/> In 2006, he was elected member of the [[International Weightlifting Federation]] [[Hall of fame|Hall of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Weightlifting Hall of Fame|date=8 April 2014 |publisher=International Weightlifting Federation|url=http://www.iwf.net/focus-on-iwf/hall-of-fame/members/}}</ref> He is still especially noteworthy for achieving the heaviest-ever snatch of double-bodyweight—lifting 200.5&nbsp;kg in the 100&nbsp;kg class.


==Biography==
==Biography==
Vlad was born in a family of three brothers and one sister in a village of Piscu in [[Galați County]]. His mother was a housewife and father worked for the national railway carrier [[Căile Ferate Române]]; he did not do any particular sport, but was a strong man weighing 100 kg at 172 cm height. After completing a school in Galați Vlad moved to [[Bucharest]].<ref name=int/>
Vlad was born in a family of three brothers and one sister in a village of [[Piscu]] in [[Galați County]]. His mother was a housewife and father worked for the national railway carrier [[Căile Ferate Române]]; he did not do any particular sport, but was a strong man weighing 100&nbsp;kg at 172&nbsp;cm height. After completing a school in [[Galați County|Galați]], Vlad moved to [[Bucharest]].<ref name=int/>


In 1990, Nicu and his coach, [[Dragomir Cioroslan]] came to the [[United States]] to train at various places around the country.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Lessons from Romania: Nicu Vlad at the Olympic Training Center|url=https://www.catalystathletics.com/article/47/Lessons-from-Romania-Nicu-Vlad-at-the-Olympic-Training-Cente/|access-date=2021-04-30|website=www.catalystathletics.com|language=en}}</ref>
⚫
Between 1991 and 1996 Vlad lived in Australia and competed for it at the 1994 Commonwealth Games and two world championships during this time. In 1996 he returned to Romania, but still has strong ties to Australia visiting regularly as his two children continue to live there. Nicu is married to the former rower Cristina Vlad.<ref name=int/>


⚫
Between 1991 and 1996, Vlad lived in [[Australia]] and competed at the [[1994 Commonwealth Games]] winning two world championships during this time. In 1996, he returned to Romania, but still has strong ties to Australia visiting regularly as his two children continue to live there. Nicu is married to the former rower Cristina Vlad.<ref name=int/>
⚫
Nicu took up weightlifting in 1978 and retired after the 1996 Olympics to become a national coach. In 2001 he was elected president of the Romanian Weightlifting Federation, and in 2004 vice president of the [[Romanian Olympic Committee]]. He also served as first vice president of the International Weightlifting Federation.<ref name=cosr/>

⚫
Nicu took up weightlifting in 1978 and retired after the 1996 Olympics to become a national coach. In 2001, he was elected president of the [[Romanian Olympic and Sports Committee|Romanian Weightlifting Federation]], and in 2004 vice president of the [[Romanian Olympic Committee]]. He also served as first vice president of the [[International Weightlifting Federation]], (IWF).<ref name=cosr/>

In June 2021 as Vice President of the IWF, Vlad was charged with complicity and tampering with multiple anti-doping rule violations by the [[International Testing Agency]]. It was alleged that Vlad conspired with the president of the IWF, [[Tamás Aján]], to allow Romanian weightlifter [[Roxana Cocoș]] to compete at the [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Olympics]] despite having tested positive for anabolic steroids just 3 months earlier.<ref>{{Cite web|title=International Testing Agency-ITA report on IWF: Anti-Doping Rule Violations and related allegations of misconduct from 2009 to 2019|url=https://ita.sport/resource/ita-report-on-iwf-anti-doping-rule-violations-and-related-allegations-of-misconduct-from-2009-to-2019/|access-date=2021-06-25|website=International Testing Agency}}</ref> On 16 June 2022 Vlad received a lifetime ban from the sport of weightlifting.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://jurisprudence.tas-cas.org/Shared%20Documents/ADD%202021-42.pdf
|title=Arbitration CAS 2021/ADD/42 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) v. Nicu Vlad, award of 16 June 2022
|website=jurisprudence.tas-cas.org|access-date=27 March 2023}}</ref>


==Romanian deadlift==
==Romanian deadlift==
Owing to Vlad the flat-backed, semi-stiff legged barbell lift (with a form similar to a deadlift) came to be known as the [[Romanian deadlift]]. He was seen by some American lifters doing the deadlifts in the Olympic training hall prior to either winning a medal, setting a world record or both. Since he is Romanian, the exercise got dubbed the Romanian deadlift, and that is the name most people know the exercise by. As the exercise does not involve lifting the weight off the ground, it is not technically a deadlift, but rather a powerful compound accessory movement that strengthens the same muscles.<ref name=int/><ref>{{cite web |website=[[IronMind]] |url=http://www.ironmind.com/ironmind/opencms/Lifts/Romanian_deadlift.html |title=Jim Schmitz on the Lifts: Romanian DeadLift |first=Jim |last=Schmitz |quote=the “discovery” of the RDL was in my gym, The Sports Palace, in San Francisco in 1990 .. Nicu Vlad, of Romania .. proceeded to do this lift, a combination stiff-leg deadlift and regular deadlift, but actually neither. Someone watching asked what the exercise was he was doing. Nicu just shrugged his shoulders and said it was to make his back strong for the clean. Dragomir also said the same; it was just a lift that Nicu had developed for his back and clean. .. Someone taking notes asked what this lift was called. .. Nicu and Dragomir didn’t have a name, so I said, “Let’s call it the Romanian deadlift or RDL for short,” and every one agreed}}</ref>
Owing to Vlad, the flat-backed, semi-stiff legged barbell lift (with a form similar to a [[deadlift]]) came to be known as the [[Romanian deadlift]]. He was seen by some American lifters doing the deadlifts in the Olympic training hall prior to either winning a medal, setting a world record or both. Since he is Romanian, the exercise got dubbed the Romanian deadlift, and that is the name most people know the exercise by.
As the exercise does not involve lifting the weight off the ground, it is not technically a deadlift, but rather a powerful compound accessory movement that strengthens the same muscles.<ref name=int/><ref>{{cite web |website=[[IronMind]] |url=http://www.ironmind.com/ironmind/opencms/Lifts/Romanian_deadlift.html |title=Jim Schmitz on the Lifts: Romanian DeadLift |first=Jim |last=Schmitz |quote=the “discovery” of the RDL was in my gym, The Sports Palace, in San Francisco in 1990 .. Nicu Vlad, of Romania .. proceeded to do this lift, a combination stiff-leg deadlift and regular deadlift, but actually neither. Someone watching asked what the exercise was he was doing. Nicu just shrugged his shoulders and said it was to make his back strong for the clean. Dragomir also said the same; it was just a lift that Nicu had developed for his back and clean. .. Someone taking notes asked what this lift was called. .. Nicu and Dragomir didn’t have a name, so I said, “Let’s call it the Romanian deadlift or RDL for short,” and every one agreed |access-date=9 February 2012 |archive-date=12 January 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150112050127/http://ironmind.com/ironmind/opencms/Lifts/Romanian_deadlift.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>


==References==
==References==
Line 64: Line 74:
<ref name=chid>[http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/l_athleteResult.asp?a_id=289 Nicu Vlad]. chidlovski.net</ref>
<ref name=chid>[http://www.chidlovski.net/liftup/l_athleteResult.asp?a_id=289 Nicu Vlad]. chidlovski.net</ref>
<ref name=cosr>[http://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/nicu-vlad2 Nicu Vlad]. [[Romanian Olympic Committee]]</ref>
<ref name=cosr>[http://www.cosr.ro/sportiv/nicu-vlad2 Nicu Vlad]. [[Romanian Olympic Committee]]</ref>
<ref name=int>{{cite web|author=Mihai Mincan |date=9 August 2014|url=http://adevarul.ro/news/sport/interviu-nicu-vlad-pestadion-aplaudau-110000-oameni-Si-aveam-20-ani-1_53e4909c0d133766a81c2db4/index.html |title=INTERVIU Nicu Vlad: „Pe stadion mă aplaudau 110.000 de oameni. Şi eu aveam 20 de ani“|publisher=adevarul.ro|accessdate=2019-05-27|language=ro}}</ref>
<ref name=int>{{cite web|author=Mihai Mincan |date=9 August 2014|url=http://adevarul.ro/news/sport/interviu-nicu-vlad-pestadion-aplaudau-110000-oameni-Si-aveam-20-ani-1_53e4909c0d133766a81c2db4/index.html |title=INTERVIU Nicu Vlad: "Pe stadion mă aplaudau 110.000 de oameni. Şi eu aveam 20 de ani"|publisher=adevarul.ro|accessdate=2019-05-27|language=ro}}</ref>
}}
}}

{{Footer Olympic Champions Weightlifting Middle heavyweight}}
{{Footer Olympic Champions Weightlifting Middle heavyweight}}
{{Footer World Champions Weightlifting – Men Middle heavyweight}}
{{Footer World Champions Weightlifting Men First heavyweight}}


{{DEFAULTSORT:Vlad, Nicu}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Vlad, Nicu}}
Line 72: Line 85:
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Romania]]
[[Category:Olympic bronze medalists for Romania]]
[[Category:Olympic weightlifters of Romania]]
[[Category:Olympic weightlifters for Romania]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in weightlifting]]
[[Category:Olympic medalists in weightlifting]]
[[Category:Romanian male weightlifters]]
[[Category:Romanian male weightlifters]]
Line 88: Line 101:
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Romania]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for Romania]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting]]
[[Category:Commonwealth Games medallists in weightlifting]]
[[Category:European Weightlifting Championships medalists]]
[[Category:World Weightlifting Championships medalists]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Galați County]]
[[Category:20th-century Romanian people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople banned for life]]
[[Category:Medallists at the 1994 Commonwealth Games]]

Revision as of 08:54, 20 April 2024

Nicu Vlad
Nicu Vlad.jpg
Personal information
Born1 November 1963 (1963-11) (age 60)
Piscu, Romania[1]
Height181 cm (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Sport
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Representing  Romania
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles -90 kg
Silver medal – second place 1988 Seoul -100 kg
Bronze medal – third place 1996 Atlanta -108 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1984 Los Angeles -90 kg
Bronze medal – third place 1985 Södertälje -100 kg
Gold medal – first place 1986 Sofia -100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1987 Ostrava -100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1989 Athens -100 kg
Gold medal – first place 1990 Budapest -100 kg
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1985 Katowice -100 kg
Gold medal – first place 1986 Karl-Marx-Stadt -100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1987 Reims -100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1989 Athens -100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1990 Aalborg -100 kg
Silver medal – second place 1996 Stavanger -108 kg
Representing  Australia
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria -108 kg - Overall
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria -108 kg - Snatch
Gold medal – first place 1994 Victoria -108 kg - Clean and Jerk
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 1994 Istanbul -108 kg

Nicolae "Nicu" Vlad (born 1 November 1963) is a retired heavyweight weightlifter from Romania. He competed for Romania at the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics and won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal. He won the world title in 1984, 1986 and 1990 and European title in 1985 and 1986 and set world records in the snatch in 1986 and 1993.[2] Between 1991 and 1996, he lived in Australia and competed for it internationally.[1] In 2006, he was elected member of the International Weightlifting Federation Hall of Fame.[3] He is still especially noteworthy for achieving the heaviest-ever snatch of double-bodyweight—lifting 200.5 kg in the 100 kg class.

Biography

Vlad was born in a family of three brothers and one sister in a village of Piscu in Galați County. His mother was a housewife and father worked for the national railway carrier Căile Ferate Române; he did not do any particular sport, but was a strong man weighing 100 kg at 172 cm height. After completing a school in Galați, Vlad moved to Bucharest.[4]

In 1990, Nicu and his coach, Dragomir Cioroslan came to the United States to train at various places around the country.[5]

Between 1991 and 1996, Vlad lived in Australia and competed at the 1994 Commonwealth Games winning two world championships during this time. In 1996, he returned to Romania, but still has strong ties to Australia visiting regularly as his two children continue to live there. Nicu is married to the former rower Cristina Vlad.[4]

Nicu took up weightlifting in 1978 and retired after the 1996 Olympics to become a national coach. In 2001, he was elected president of the Romanian Weightlifting Federation, and in 2004 vice president of the Romanian Olympic Committee. He also served as first vice president of the International Weightlifting Federation, (IWF).[6]

In June 2021 as Vice President of the IWF, Vlad was charged with complicity and tampering with multiple anti-doping rule violations by the International Testing Agency. It was alleged that Vlad conspired with the president of the IWF, Tamás Aján, to allow Romanian weightlifter Roxana Cocoș to compete at the 2012 Olympics despite having tested positive for anabolic steroids just 3 months earlier.[7] On 16 June 2022 Vlad received a lifetime ban from the sport of weightlifting.[8]

Romanian deadlift

Owing to Vlad, the flat-backed, semi-stiff legged barbell lift (with a form similar to a deadlift) came to be known as the Romanian deadlift. He was seen by some American lifters doing the deadlifts in the Olympic training hall prior to either winning a medal, setting a world record or both. Since he is Romanian, the exercise got dubbed the Romanian deadlift, and that is the name most people know the exercise by.

As the exercise does not involve lifting the weight off the ground, it is not technically a deadlift, but rather a powerful compound accessory movement that strengthens the same muscles.[4][9]

References

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Nicu Vlad.
  1. ^ a b c Nicu Vlad. Sports-reference
  2. ^ Nicu Vlad. chidlovski.net
  3. ^ "Weightlifting Hall of Fame". International Weightlifting Federation. 8 April 2014.
  4. ^ a b c Mihai Mincan (9 August 2014). "INTERVIU Nicu Vlad: "Pe stadion mă aplaudau 110.000 de oameni. Şi eu aveam 20 de ani"" (in Romanian). adevarul.ro. Retrieved 27 May 2019.
  5. ^ "Lessons from Romania: Nicu Vlad at the Olympic Training Center". www.catalystathletics.com. Retrieved 30 April 2021.
  6. ^ Nicu Vlad. Romanian Olympic Committee
  7. ^ "International Testing Agency-ITA report on IWF: Anti-Doping Rule Violations and related allegations of misconduct from 2009 to 2019". International Testing Agency. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Arbitration CAS 2021/ADD/42 International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) v. Nicu Vlad, award of 16 June 2022" (PDF). jurisprudence.tas-cas.org. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  9. ^ Schmitz, Jim. "Jim Schmitz on the Lifts: Romanian DeadLift". IronMind. Archived from the original on 12 January 2015. Retrieved 9 February 2012. the "discovery" of the RDL was in my gym, The Sports Palace, in San Francisco in 1990 .. Nicu Vlad, of Romania .. proceeded to do this lift, a combination stiff-leg deadlift and regular deadlift, but actually neither. Someone watching asked what the exercise was he was doing. Nicu just shrugged his shoulders and said it was to make his back strong for the clean. Dragomir also said the same; it was just a lift that Nicu had developed for his back and clean. .. Someone taking notes asked what this lift was called. .. Nicu and Dragomir didn't have a name, so I said, "Let's call it the Romanian deadlift or RDL for short," and every one agreed
Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Nicu_Vlad&oldid=1219863402"