Alcide Legrand

Alcide Legrand (born February 17, 1962 in Bergerac , Dordogne ) is a former French wrestler . He won a bronze medal in free style middleweight at the 1989 World Championships .

Career

Alcide Legrand began wrestling as a teenager in 1973, focusing on free style. In 1980 he was French junior champion in the age group "Juniors" and in 1982 in the age group "Espoirs". He then moved to Paris, got a job with the municipal transport company and became a member of the VS Metro Paris sports club . Gerard Santoro became his most important coach in those years . As an adult, Alcide Legrand was 1.77 meters tall and first in the welterweight division and from 1986 in the middleweight division.

In 1980 he took part in the Junior World Championship (Juniors) in Colorado Springs. In the weight class up to 70 kg he won a bronze medal. International championships in the youth field were still in their early stages, but this championship, in which only a few nations participated, was an official championship of the World Wrestling Federation (FILA).

In 1982 Alcide Legrand was the first French champion in the welterweight division. He won this title a total of thirteen times by 1998. He took part in 15 French championships and was only able to win the title in 1985, when he was third in the middleweight division and in 1997, when he was second in the middleweight division.

With the seniors he started in 1983 for the first time at an international championship. He finished 2nd in the welterweight championship of the European Union in Annecy behind the German Stefan Badusch. In the following years he achieved good to very good results at many world and European championships. However, he only managed to get into the medal ranks once: at the 1989 World Cup in Martigny, Switzerland. He finished there in the middleweight division behind Elmadi Dschabrailow from the Soviet Union and Melvin Douglas from the United States, but before such outstanding wrestlers as Necmi Gençalp from Turkey and Jozef Lohyňa from the CSSR in 3rd place and thus won a bronze medal at the World Championships.

With a good 6th place at the 1991 World Cup in Varna, Alcide Legrand qualified for the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona. In Barcelona he lost his first fight against Jozef Lohyna, then defeated Roberto Neves from Brazil and had to admit defeat to Romanian Nicolae Ghita with 2: 3 points in his third fight . He was eliminated and came in 11th place.

In 1993 he came in at the Mediterranean Games in Languedoc-Roussillon behind Sebahattin Öztürk on the 2nd place. He then started at various World and European Championships until 1997, but could no longer place himself in the front field.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1980	3.	Junior World Championships (Juniors) in Colorado Springs	up to 70 kg	behind John Johnson, USA and Hajime Wakui, Japan
1983	2.	EU championship in Annecy	Welter	behind Stefan Badusch, Germany, in front of Hans Berkenbosch, Netherlands
1984	7th	EM in Jönköping	Welter	Winner: Taram Magomedow , Soviet Union ahead of Martin Knosp , Germany
1986	6th	World Cup in Budapest	medium	Winner: Vladimir Modosjan , USSR ahead of Alexander Nanew , Bulgaria and Jozef Lohyna, CSSR
1987	13.	World Cup in Clermont-Ferrand	medium	Winner: Mark Schultz , USA ahead of Alexander Nanew and Wladimir Modosjan
1989	2.	German Grand Prix in Bonn	medium	behind Jozef Lohyna, in front of Reiner Trik and Klaus Riesterer, both Germany
1989	3.	World Cup in Martigny / Switzerland	medium	behind Elmadi Jabrailow, USSR and Melvin Douglas, USA, in front of Necmi Gencalp, Turkey and Jozef Lohyna
1990	3.	German Grand Prix in Saarbrücken	medium	behind Rahmat Sukra , Bulgaria and Hans Gstöttner , GDR, in front of Luchman Jabrailow , USSR
1990	5.	EM in Poznań	medium	behind Hans Gstöttner, Luchman Dschabrailow, Sebahattin Öztürk and Nicolae Ghita, Romania
1991	2.	"Roger Coulon" Memorial in Carcassonne	medium	behind Hans Gstöttner, in front of Lee Dong-woo, South Korea and Francisco Eglesia, Spain
1991	6th	EM in Stuttgart	medium	Winner: Elmadi Dschabrailow ahead of Hans Gstöttner and Sebahattin Öztürk
1991	2.	Mediterranean Games in Athens	medium	behind Sebahattin Öztürk, in front of Mohammed Zayar, Syria
1991	6th	World Cup in Varna	medium	Winner: Kevin Jackson, USA ahead of Jozef Lohyna and Sebahattin Öztürk
1992	14th	EM in Kaposvár	medium	Winner: Sebahattin Öztürk ahead of Laszlo Dvorak , Hungary and Rustem Kelechsajew , Russia
1992	11.	OS in Barcelona	medium	after a loss to Jozef Lohyna, a win over Roberto Neves, Brazil and a loss to Nicolae Ghita
1993	6th	EM in Istanbul	medium	Winner: Rustem Kelechsajew ahead of Sebahattin Öztürk and Alexander Sawko , Ukraine
1993	2.	Mediterranean Games in Languedoc-Roussillon	medium	behind Sebahattin Öztürk, in front of Mohammed Zayar
1994	11.	EM in Rome	medium	Winner: Rustem Kelechayev ahead of Luchman Dschabrailow and Hans Gstöttner
1994	11.	World Cup in Istanbul	medium	Winner: Luchman Dschabrailow in front of Sebahattin Öztürk and Hans Gstöttner
1995	9.	EM in Friborg / Switzerland	medium	Winner: Magomed Ibragimow, Azerbaijan ahead of Sergei Gubrintschuk , Ukraine and Rasul Katinowasow , Russia
1995	29	World Cup in Atlanta	medium	Winner: Kevin Jackson before Elmadi Jabrailow and Ruslan Kinchagow , Uzbekistan
1997	14th	EM in Warsaw	medium	Winner: Chadschimurad Magomedow , Russia ahead of Nicolae Ghita and David Bichinaschwili , Ukraine

French championships

Alcide Legrand was French welterweight champion from 1982 to 1984 and middleweight champion in 1986, 1988 to 1991, 1993 to 1996 and 1998, each in free style.

Explanations

• all free style competitions
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Welter weight, weight class up to 74 kg, middle weight, up to 1996 up to 82 kg, from 1997 up to 85 kg body weight

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer
• Foeldeak Wrestlind Database website
• Website of the French wrestling federation "www.fflutte.com"

Web links

• Alcide Legrand in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )