Branislav Simić

Branislav Simić (born March 21, 1935 in Gornja Rogatica , Bačka Topola , Vojvodina ) is a former Yugoslav wrestler .

Career

Branislav Simić grew up in Vojvodina . He started wrestling as a teenager in 1948. In the youth field in Yugoslavia he won all national championship titles in the Greco-Roman style, the style he exclusively wrestled, and was then delegated to the large sports club Proleter Zrenjanin . His coach at the time, Jeno Kracević, led him relatively quickly to the top European class. Already with 18 years he was at the World Championships in 1953 Naples start at middleweight, but had pronounced Lospech, because he had been in the first two rounds against the Olympic champion from 1952 Axel Grönberg of Sweden and the silver medalist from 1952 Kalervo Rauhala from Finland compete and lost both fights. In 1954 he wrestled within an international match BRD - Yugoslavia against Horst Hess from Dortmund and lost just on points. Even in the next few years he could not reap great merits on the international wrestling mats. He failed again and again because of the experienced world class wrestlers Giwi Kartosia from the Soviet Union , Dimitar Dobrew from Bulgaria and György Gurics from Hungary . From 1959 to 1961 he was not seen at all on the international wrestling mats. From 1962 he took part in the international wrestling event again with increasing successes. In 1963 he became vice world champion and in 1964, at the height of his career, even Olympic champion in Tokyo . At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , he won another bronze medal in the middleweight division. The German Lothar Metz blocked his way to another gold medal.

Branislav Simić was 1.80 m tall and always started in the middleweight division, whose weight limit was 79 kg until 1961 and 87 kg from 1962. He studied history and was a history professor after his wrestling career. In September 2007 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Wed = middleweight)

• 1953, 12th place , World Cup in Naples , GR, Wed, after defeats against Axel Grönberg , Sweden and Kalervo Rauhala , Finland ;
• 1955, 5th place , World Championships in Karlsruhe , GR, Wed, with victories over Hendrik De Nijs, Netherlands and Oskar Holinger, Switzerland and defeats against György Gurics , Hungary and Giwi Kartosia , Soviet Union ;
• 1956, 10th place , OS in Melbourne , Gr, Wed, after defeat by Dimitar Dobrew , Bulgaria , retired due to injury;
• 1956, 2nd place , World Cup in Istanbul, Gr, Wed, behind Giwi Kartosia, Soviet Union ; before Horst Hess ;
• 1957, 3rd place , "Adria-Pokal" in Opatija , GR, Wed, behind Hans Antonsson , Sweden and Miklós Szilvási , Hungary;
• 1958, 1st place , tournament in Udine , GR, Wed, ahead of Georg Utz , FRG and I. Molon, Italy;
• 1958, 8th place , World Championship in Budapest , GR, Wed, with victory over Trantjaczy, Poland , a draw against Mithat Bayrak , Turkey and a defeat against Giwi Kartosia;
• 1962, 3rd place , "Iwan-Poddubny-Memorial" in Moscow, Gr, Mi, behind Gheorghe Popovici , Romania and Kirow, Soviet Union;
• 1962, 1st place , "Werner Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig, GR, Wed, ahead of Erik Andersson, Sweden and Hermann Borchers, GDR;
• 1963, 2nd place , World Cup in Helsingborg , GR, Wed, with victories over Angelo Foschino, Italy, Wayne Baugham , USA , Raymond Schummer, Luxembourg and a draw against György Gurics and Nikolai Tschutschalow, Soviet Union;
• 1964, gold medal , OS in Tokyo , Gr, Wed, with victories over Pentti Punkari, Finland, Julio Graffigna, Argentina , Géza Hollósi , Hungary and a draw against Valentin Olenik , Soviet Union;
• 1965, 7th place , World Championships in Toledo / USA , Gr, Wed, with victory over Jean-Marie Chardonnes, Switzerland, draw against Wladimir Smolinski, Poland and Ion Ţăranu , Romania, then retired due to injury;
• 1966, 6th place , World Cup in Bucharest , GR, Wed, with victory over Günter Kowalewski, FRG and a draw against Lothar Metz , GDR , Sven Allan Olsson, Sweden and Waclaw Orlowski, Poland;
• 1966, 2nd place , "Iwan-Poddubny-Memorial" in Minsk , Gr, Mi, behind Kogan, Soviet Union;
• 1967, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Tunis, GR, Wed, ahead of Mehmet Ucar, Turkey and A. Mouzakis, Greece ;
• 1967, 6th place , World Cup in Bucharest, Gr, Wed, with victory over Kowalewski and a draw against Olsson, Orlowski and Metz;
• 1966, 2nd place , "Iwan-Poddubny-Memorial" in Alma-Ata , Gr, Wed, behind Valentin Olenik, Soviet Union;
• 1968, bronze medal , OS in Mexico City , Gr, Mi, with victories over Chardonnes, Nicolae Neguț , Romania, Jiří Kormaník , CSSR and a draw against Olenik and Metz

swell

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ FILA Class of 2007 ( Memento of the original from December 28, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 21, 2010  

Web links

• Branislav Simić's profile at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Branislav Simić in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )