Ștefan Negrișan

Ștefan Negrișan (born September 9, 1958 in Peceneaga , Tulcea County ) is a former Romanian wrestler and world champion in 1985.

Career

Ștefan Negrișan began wrestling as a teenager. After initial successes at national level, he was delegated to the top club CS Farul Constanța and trained there by coach Constantin Ofițerescu to become a top wrestler of international format in the Greco-Roman style. Negrişan started in the lightweight, in the weight class that was dominated in Romania by Olympic champion Ștefan Rusu for many years. He therefore had to wait until 1982 with his first appearance at an international championship, when Ștefan Rusu was promoted to the welterweight division.

His debut at the European Championships in Varna was successful, because he was vice European champion in the lightweight behind the Soviet athlete Gennady Jermilow . Also at the world championship of the same year in Katowice , Negrişan won a medal with the "bronze". So all in all a very successful year for the 29-year-old debutant tefan Negrișan.

In the following year 1983 Ștefan did not have as great success as 1982. At the European Championships in Budapest he just missed a medal with 4th place and at the World Championships in Kiev he only came 7th.

1984 Negrişan in Jönköping after a final defeat against the Soviet athlete Mikhail Prokudin, as in 1982, vice European lightweight champion. At the Olympic Games of the same year in Los Angeles , the prerequisites for winning a medal for Negrișan were very good, because many socialist countries boycotted these games. Negrișan missed this chance, however, because he was defeated in the pool final against Vlado Lisjak from Yugoslavia and was surprised by the American James Martinez in the battle for the bronze medal and laid on his shoulders after 25 seconds of fighting.

After this disappointment, 1985 became the most successful in Ștefan Negrişan's career. First he was again runner-up European lightweight champion in Leipzig . Once again, Michail Prokudin prevented him from jumping onto the top step. At the World Cup in Kolbotn, however, Negrișan managed to get revenge against Prokudin in the final with a narrow point win. With this victory he won the world title.

At the 1986 World Cup in Budapest , Ștefan Negrişan suffered a defeat by Claudio Passarelli from the Federal Republic of Germany in the first round and came in fifth in the final result.

Then he ended his international wrestling career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Le = lightweight, then up to 68 kg body weight)

• 1982, 2nd place , EM in Varna , GR, Le, behind Gennadi Jermilow , USSR a . before Gerry Svensson, Sweden , Istvan Peter , Hungary , Peter Thätner , GDR a . Rumen Tzenow, Bulgaria ;
• 1982, 3rd place , World Championships in Katowice , GR, Le, behind Gennadi Jermilow, u. Istvan Peter u. before Vlado Lisjak , Yugoslavia , Tapio Sipilä , Finland a . Sumer Kocak, Turkey ;
• 1983, 4th place , EM in Budapest , GR, Le, behind Gennadi Jermilow, Jerzy Kopanski , Poland , Tapio Sipilä u. before Istvan Peter u. Esa Metin, Turkey;
• 1983, 7th place , World Championships in Kiev , GR, Le, behind Tapio Sipilä, Mohammad Bana, Iran , Gennadi Jermilow, Istvan Peter, Douglas Yeats, Canada u. Jerzy Kopanski;
• 1984, 2nd place , EM in Jönköping , GR, Le, behind Michail Prokudin , USSR a. in front of Panajat Kirow, Bulgaria, Krzysztof Pieta, Poland, Jukka Talvitie, Finland a. Gerry Svensson;
• 1984, 4th place , OS in Los Angeles , GR, Le, behind Vlado Lisjak, Tapio Sipilä u. James Martinez , USA a . before Dietmar Streitler , Austria a . Mohamed M. Alnakhdali, Syria ;
• 1985, 2nd place , World Championships in Leipzig , GR, Le, behind Michail Prokudin u. before Stanislaw Barej, Poland, Frank Abial, France, Torsten Schlonske , GDR a. Jasko, CSSR;
• 1985, 1st place , World Championship in Kolbotn / Norway , GR, Le, ahead of Michail Prokudin, James Martinez, Sonny Davidsson, Sweden, Nandor Sabo , Yugoslavia a. Tibor Dudas, Hungary;
• 1986, 5th place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, Le, behind Levon Dschulfalakjan , USSR, Tapio Sipilä, Claudio Passarelli , FRG a. Morten Brekke , Norway a . before Stanislaw Barej

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from the years 1982 to 1987,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

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