Alexander Michailowitsch Jurkewitsch

Alexander Michailowitsch Jurkewitsch ( Russian Александр Михайлович Юркевич ; born May 22, 1942 , † June 25, 2011 in Moscow ) was a Soviet wrestler . He was world champion in 1969 in the Greco-Roman style light heavyweight.

Career

Alexander Yurkevich began wrestling as a teenager. He joined the Red Army and received extensive support there. He concentrated fully on the Greco-Roman style. In his time, the competition in the Soviet Union, which at least in the Greco-Roman style was the number one wrestling nation in the world, was particularly great. He therefore had to wait a relatively long time before he came to use in international championships, although he had been one of the best Soviet wrestlers in his weight class since 1965. The wrestlers against whom he had to prevail in the USSR were all world-class people like Rimantas Bagdonas , Valentin Olenik , Valeri Resanzew , Anatoli Kirow , Omar Bliadze or Nikolai Ivanovich Jakowenko .

After some successes at important national events such as the renowned "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow , Alexander Jurkewitsch was then used at the 1967 European Championships in Minsk . He showed his great ability there in the middleweight division and became European champion with victories over Jean-Marie Chardonnes from Switzerland , Merlid Öyvid from Norway , a bye and a draw against Lothar Metz from the GDR .

Alexander Jurkewitsch missed the jump to the Olympic Games in 1968, however, because he, meanwhile switched to the light heavyweight division, could not prevail against Nikolai Ivanovich Jakowenko in the Soviet Union . But he was used again in 1969 at the World Cup in Mar del Plata . In the light heavyweight division he defeated Ragnar Gundersen from Norway, Burke Deadrich from the United States, Hiroyoshi Fujigawa from Japan , Nicolae Neguț from Romania and Wenko Zinzarow from Bulgaria and became world champion .

Alexander Jurkewitsch was active for a few years afterwards, but did not get any further appearances at the international championships.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1965	2.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	medium	behind Walentin Olenik u. before Rimantas Bagdonas , both USSR
1967	1.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	medium	in front of Valentin Olenik, Lothar Metz , GDR , Petar Krumow , Bulgaria , Nikolai Tarasow, USSR a. Branislav Simić , Yugoslavia
1967	1.	EM in Minsk	medium	with victories over Jean-Marie Chardonnes, Switzerland , a draw against Lothar Metz, a bye and a victory over Merlid Öyvind, Norway
1967	1.	Pre-Olympic Games in Mexico City	medium	before Lothar Metz, Wenko Zinzarow , Bulgaria a. László Sillai , Hungary
1968	2.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Semi-difficult	behind Wassili Merkulow , USSR, in front of Karmatskitsch a. Kriwliwzen, bde. USSR and Per Svensson , Sweden
1969	1.	Spartakiad of the armies of the socialist countries	Semi-difficult
1969	1.	World Cup in Mar del Plata	Semi-difficult	with victories over Ragnar Gundersen, Norway, Burke Deadrich, USA , Hiroyoshi Fujigawa, Japan , Nicolae Neguț , Romania a. Venko Zinzarow
1971	1.	Championship of the armies of the socialist countries (SKDA-Meistersch.)	Heavy	before Nicolae Neguț u. Jendreczek, GDR

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, middleweight, up to 1968 up to 87 kg, from 1969 up to 82 kg, light heavyweight, up to 1968 up to 97 kg, from 1969 up to 90 kg, heavyweight, from 1969 up to 100 kg body weight

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Athletics magazine

Web links

• Profile of Alexander Jurkewitsch at the Institute for Applied Training Science