Émile Poilvé

Émile Poilvé (born September 19, 1903 in Mégrit , Côtes-d'Armor , † 1963 ) was a French wrestler . He was an Olympic middleweight champion in free style in 1936.

Career

Émile Poilvé came from northern France, where he started wrestling as a teenager. He first appeared on the international wrestling mat in 1930, when he took 3rd place in the middleweight division at the European Free Style Championships in Brussels and won a medal. In the final he was defeated by the Swiss Hermann Gehri .

In 1932 he was sent to the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . In the free style he succeeded in the middleweight division over the Canadian Donald Stockton . Then he met the top wrestlers Jozsef Tunyogi from Hungary and Ivar Johansson from Sweden , to whom he lost. In the final accounts he came in 5th place. He also started in Los Angeles in the Greco-Roman style. He lost in his first fight against the eventual Olympic champion Väinö Kokkinen from Finland and then had to give up injured.

In the following years he fought in France with Jean Jourlin for supremacy in the free style middleweight division. In the years 1933 to 1935 Jean Jourlin prevailed. Émile Poilvé was only at the start again in 1935 at the European Championships in Brussels. But he had to start in the light heavyweight division, because Jourlin wrestled in the middleweight division. In the light heavyweight division, Emile Poilve did not get along because he lost his fights against August Neo from Estonia , Edvard Virag from Hungary and Hubert Prokop from Czechoslovakia at this European Championship and therefore only came in 8th place.

In 1936, Émile Poilvé was used again in the middleweight division at the Olympic Games in Berlin , while Jean Jourlin started there in the welterweight division. Emile Poilve was in excellent form in Berlin and defeated Perry Evans from Canada, Kyösti Luukko from Finland, Leslie Jeffers from Great Britain , Jaroslav Sysel from Czechoslovakia , Ernst Krebs from Switzerland and Richard Voliva from the United States and won in a superior manner the gold medal .

In 1937, Émile Poilvé moved to the professional wrestlers (catch as catch can). He started in European and North American rings. He was still on the mat in 1960.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, EM = European Championship, F = free style, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, then up to 79 kg or 97 kg body weight)

• 1930, 3rd place , EM in Brussels , F, Wed, with victories over Stanley Bissell , Great Britain and Nils Landberg, Sweden and one defeat against Hermann Gehri , Switzerland ;
• 1932, 5th place , OS in Los Angeles , F, Wed, with a win over Donald Stockton , Canada and losses to Jozsef Tunyogi , Hungary and Ivar Johansson , Sweden;
• 1932, unpl. , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Wed, after losing to Väinö Kokkinen , Finland , retired due to injury;
• 1935, 8th place , EM in Brussels, F, Hs, after defeats against August Neo , Estonia , Edvard Virag , Hungary and Hubert Prokop, Czechoslovakia ;
• 1936, gold medal, OS in Berlin , F, Wed, with victories over Perry Evans, Canada, Kyösti Luukko , Finland, Leslie Jeffers , Great Britain, Jaroslav Sysel , Czechoslovakia, Ernst Krebs , Switzerland and Richard Voliva , USA

swell

• Professional journal Athletics , numbers 32/33/1932, 31/32/1936,
• Documentation of International Wrestling Championships by FILA , 1976, pages E-20, E 30/31

Web links

• Profile of Émile Poilvé at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Émile Poilvé in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )