Dumitru Pârvulescu

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Dumitru Pârvulescu

Dumitru Pârvulescu (born June 14, 1933 in Bucharest , † April 9, 2007 ) was a Romanian wrestler . He was an Olympic champion in the 1960 Greco-Roman style flyweight.

Career

Dumitru Pârvulescu grew up in Lugoj and started wrestling there as a teenager. He quickly developed into a class man in the Greco-Roman style and was then delegated to the Steaua Bucharest club . Dumitru learned the trade of a lathe operator, but then became a state employee, as was the case with top athletes in the socialist states.

In 1951 he took an excellent 2nd place at the World Youth Festival in East Berlin as an 18-year-old newcomer to the flyweight division and thus attracted attention for the first time on the international wrestling mat. In 1952 he was already used at the Olympic Games in Helsinki , but had to pay hardship there, because he only won one fight and had to be content with 9th place after defeats against Maurice Mewis from Belgium and Ignazio Fabra from Italy .

Just one year later, Pârvulescu just barely missed a medal at the world championships in Naples with fourth place in the flyweight division. He won three fights and retired after a defeat against Ahmet Bilek from Turkey after the 4th round. Also at the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 , Pârvulescu narrowly missed the bronze medal. But he had no chance against Ignazio Fabra and Nikolai Solowjow from the Soviet Union .

Between 1956 and 1960 there were only Greco-Roman World Championships in Budapest in 1958 . Dumitru Pârvulescu was there again and took a good 5th place. At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 he finally achieved great success. He became Olympic champion with four wins and one draw against the Soviet wrestler Ivan Kotschergin . Among the wrestlers he defeated there were such great experts as Ignazio Fabra and Borivoje Vukov from Yugoslavia .

At the 1961 World Championships in Yokohama Pârvulescu defeated four world class wrestlers in succession, but was surprisingly defeated by the American Wilson and against the Soviet wrestler Armais Sajadow and became vice world champion. After two weaker years in 1962 and 1963, Pârvulescu trumped again at the 1964 Olympic Games in Tokyo and won a bronze medal at the end of his career. He also managed to win over Rolf Lacour from Köllerbach , against whom he had lost at the 1962 World Cup .

Pârvulescu then resigned from active wrestling. The fact that he was presented with a high Romanian medal from the Romanian President Iliescu in 2004 shows that he was not forgotten even after many years in Romania.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = flyweight, then up to 53 kg body weight)

swell

  • various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1951 to 1964,
  • Documentation of FILA International Wrestling Championships, 1976

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Pârvulescu, Dumitru
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pîrvulescu, Dumitru; Parvulescu, Dumitru; Pirvulescu, Dumitru
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Romanian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Bucharest
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2007