Borivoje Vukov

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Borivoje Vukov (born July 8, 1929 in Senta , † July 1, 2010 in Belgrade ) was a Yugoslav wrestler . He was world champion in flyweight in 1963, Greco-Roman style.

Career

Borivoje Vukov started wrestling in Novi Sad in 1947 . In the Yugoslav part of Vojvodina , a wrestling center developed immediately after the Second World War, which produced Olympic, world and European champions. One of them was to become Borivoje Vukov, who was a member of the Vojvodina Novi Sad sports club . He was a very light athlete and wrestled throughout his career in flyweight, the weight class up to 52 kilograms of body weight, and exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.

In 1952 he took part in an international championship for the first time. It was the Olympic Games in Helsinki . Vukov won his first two fights there, but then lost to the experienced West German master Heinrich Weber from Göppingen and the later Olympic champion Boris Gurewitsch from the Soviet Union and took a good 7th place.

1954 Vukov stayed with the Yugoslav national wrestling team for an international match in the Federal Republic of Germany . He lost it in the flyweight against Heinrich Weber again on points.

By 1961, Vukov participated in all the Greco-Roman style Olympic Games and World Championships that were held. He always achieved good placements and even won the bronze medal at the 1958 World Cup in Budapest with five wins and only one defeat, which he again had to accept from Boris Gurevich. Also in 1961 he achieved an outstanding result with 4th place at the World Championships in Yokohama . Only the top wrestlers Dumitru Pârvulescu from Romania and Armais Sajadow from the USSR were able to defeat him.

The 1963 World Cup in Helsingborg was the highlight of Borivoje Vukov's career . Due to his advanced age of 34 years, nobody had expected Vukov before this World Cup. However, he presented himself in excellent form in Helsingborg, landed five wins and also defeated the 1960 Olympic champion Dumitru Pârvulescu and the two-time silver medalist at the Olympic Games Ignazio Fabra from Italy . The world championship title was the deserved reward for this outstanding achievement.

Then he resigned from active competition and became a coach.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = fly weight, up to 52 kg body weight)

  • 1950, 4th place , World Championship in Stockholm , GR, Fl, with victories over Klausen, Norway , Malaghasan, Iran and defeats against Sidoni, Lebanon and Ali Yuecel , Turkey ;
  • 1952, 7th place , OS in Helsinki , GR, Fl, with victories over Béla Kénez, Hungary and Svend Aage Thomsen, Norway and defeats against Heinrich Weber , FRG and Boris Gurewitsch , Soviet Union ;
  • 1953, 8th place , World Cup in Naples , GR, Fl, with a victory over Maurice Mewis , Belgium and defeats against Béla Kénez and Karl-Erik Andersson , Sweden ;
  • 1955, 2nd place , “Adria” cup tournament in Pula , GR, Fl, behind Ion Cernea , Romania and ahead of Georg Schwaiger , FRG;
  • 1955, 12th place , World Championships in Karlsruhe , GR, Fl, with a victory over Eugen Odehnal, Czechoslovakia and defeats against Hüseyin Akbaş , Turkey and Istvan Baranya , Hungary;
  • 1956, 4th place , World Cup in Istanbul, Gr, Fl, with victories over Tatas, Brusew and defeats against Simon
  • 1956, 2nd place , "Opatija" cup tournament in Pula, GR, Fl, behind Dumitru Pârvulescu , Romania and ahead of Ahmet Bilek , Turkey;
  • 1956, 6th place , OS in Melbourne , GR, Fl, with victories over Maurice Mewis and Bengt Johansson , Sweden and one defeat against Istvan Baranya;
  • 1958, 2nd place , tournament in Udine , GR, Fl, behind Ignazio Fabra , Italy and in front of Erwin Trouvain , FRG;
  • 1958, 3rd place , World Championships in Budapest , GR, Fl, with victories over Willy Nielsen, Denmark, Jan Hořnak, CSSR and Mohammad Paziraye, Iran , draw against Maurice Mewis and Sándor Kerekes , Hungary and one defeat against Boris Gurewitsch;
  • 1959, 3rd place , tournament in Split , GR, Fl, behind Egribas, Turkey and Stefan Hajduk, Poland ;
  • 1960, 7th place , OS in Rome , GR, Fl, with victories over Georgi Moskow, Bulgaria and Franz Burkhard, Switzerland , a draw against Bengt Fränfors, Sweden and a defeat against Dumitru Pârvulescu;
  • 1961, 1st place , tournament in Salzburg , GR, Fl, ahead of Rolf Lacour , FRG and Mierznik, Poland;
  • 1961, 4th place , World Championships in Yokohama , GR, Fl, with a victory over John Richard Wilson, USA , draw against Mohamed Osman El Sayed, Egypt and defeats against Dumitru Pârvulescu and Armais Sajadow , USSR;
  • 1962, 1st place , "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig , GR, Fl, ahead of Vladimir Karawajew, USSR and Maca, GDR;
  • 1963, 1st place , World Championships in Helsingborg , GR, Fl, with victories over Trond Martiniussen, Norway , Berthold Bitterling, GDR, Dumitru Pârvulescu and Ignazio Fabra

swell

  • various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1952 to 1963,
  • Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Memoriam: Borivoj Vukov at rts.rs, accessed on July 21, 2014
personal data
SURNAME Vukov, Borivoje
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH July 8, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Senta
DATE OF DEATH July 1, 2010
Place of death Belgrade