Christopher Campbell

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Christopher Campbell (born September 21, 1954 ) is a retired American wrestler .

Career

Chris Campbell began his career Ringer at the High School in Westfield , New Jersey . He then studied at the University of Iowa and continued wrestling there . He developed into an excellent freestyle wrestler under the coaches Dan Gable and Gary Kurdelmeier. In 1976 and 1977 he was NCAA (US University Sports Association) Division I All-American Champion (US student champion) middleweight, after he had finished second in 1975. He won his first USA championship in 1983, also in the middleweight division.

His international wrestling career began earlier, namely in 1977 with a fifth place at the World Championships in Lausanne . There he suffered a defeat from Adolf Seger from Germany, among others . In 1978 and 1979 he was not used internationally. In 1980 he qualified as the winner of the trials for the Olympic Games in Moscow . The US Olympic boycott prevented its start.

In 1981 he celebrated the greatest success of his wrestling career at the World Championships in Skoplje . He became world middleweight champion. In the final battle he defeated Efraim Kamberow from Bulgaria on points. From 1982 to 1984 he was injured frequently and could not qualify for the world championships in those years. The US representative in those years was Mark Schultz , who also became an Olympic middleweight champion in 1984.

Chris Campbell resigned from active competition after 1984 and worked as an assistant wrestling coach at the Universities of Iowa , Iowa State, Cornell and Syracuse . In 1989, when he was almost 35 years old, he started a comeback with the “Sunkist Kids”, which he completely succeeded. At the 1990 World Championships in Tokyo , he was back at the start and became runner-up. In the final he was defeated by Maharbeg Kadarzew from the Soviet Union . He also fought very well at the 1991 World Cup, but did not make it into the medal ranks with fifth place. He had created the best conditions for winning the title with a victory over Maharbeg Kadarzew, which he gambled away again through a defeat against the Cuban Roberto Limontas.

He celebrated a wonderful end to his 15-year career at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona by winning the bronze medal.

After the 1992 Olympics, he finally ended his career as an active wrestler. He continued to be intensively involved in the sport, held a leading position in the US Wrestling Association, the US Olympic Committee and the US Boxing Association.

He currently works as a lawyer for a trading company and is involved in the United States Anti-Doping Agency in the fight against doping.

The results of the championships and some of the other tournaments he has participated in are shown in the following sections.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, F = freestyle, Wed = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, back then up to 82 or 90 kg body weight)

  • 1977, 5th place , World Championships in Lausanne , F, Wed, with victories over Richard Deschatelets, Canada , Hassan Mohebbi, Iran and Akira Suzuki, Japan and defeats against Magomed Arakilow , USSR and Adolf Seger , FRG ;
  • 1981, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA , F, Wed, ahead of Grigori Danko, USSR and Mohamed Al Ashram, Egypt ;
  • 1981, 1st place , World Cup in Skoplje , F, Wed, with victories over Alolo Ortelli, Italy , István Kovács , Hungary , Leszek Ciota, Poland , Danko, Günter Busarello , Austria and Efraim Kamberow , Bulgaria;
  • 1981, 1st place , World Super Championship in Nagoya , F, Wed, ahead of Akiro Ohta, Japan and Ismail Abilow , Bulgaria;
  • 1984, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA, F, Wed, in front of Vesko Manow, Bulgaria and Vladimir Modossian, USSR;
  • 1990, 2nd place , World Cup in Tokyo , F, Hs, behind Maharbeg Kadarzew , USSR and in front of Mohebbi, Ludwig Schneider , FRG, Rumen Alabakow, Bulgaria and Kenan Şimşek , Turkey ;
  • 1991, 2nd place , Pan American Games, F, Hs, behind Roberto Limontas, Cuba and in front of Gregory Edgelow, Canada;
  • 1991, 1st place , World Cup tournament in Toledo / USA, F, Hs, ahead of Sergej Kowalewski , USSR and Wilfredo Morales, Cuba;
  • 1991, 5th place, World Championships in Varna, F, Hs, behind Kadarzew, Iraklios Descoulidis, Greece, Limontas and Alabakow and in front of Simsek and Abbas Jadidi , Iran;
  • 1992, bronze medal , OS in Barcelona , F, Hs, behind Kadarzew and Simsek and in front of Puntsep Sukhbar, Mongolia, Ayub Banynosvat, Iran and Limontas;
  • 1993, 3rd place , World Cup tournament in Chattanooga , F, Hs, behind Vitali Gizojew, Russia and Limontas and in front of Alf Wurr, Canada

USA championships

Chris Campbell was in 1983, 1990 and 1991 American middle and light heavyweight champion, freestyle.

swell

  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig,
  • Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 11/77, 10/81, 09/84, 10/90, 19/91 and 09/92,
  • National Wrestling Hall of Fame and Museum website
personal data
SURNAME Campbell, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1954