Edmond Faure

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Edmond Faure (born June 5, 1927 in Clermont-Ferrand , † February 13, 2008 ) was a French wrestler . He was an Olympian in 1948 and 1952.

Career

Edmond Faure started wrestling with his twin brother Maurice as a teenager in Clermont-Ferrand. He stayed with the wrestling club Lutte de l'ASM Clermont-Ferrand throughout his career and trained there with Remy Aurine, with a few exceptions concentrating entirely on the Greco-Roman style.

In 1947 he was the first French flyweight champion (Greco-Roman style). He won this title seven more times by 1956.

Edmond Faure made his first start in an international championship at the 1948 Olympic Games in London . He started there in the flyweight of the Greco-Roman. Stiles and came in 9th with one win over Abdullah Sidani from Lebanon and two losses. His next start was at the 1950 World Cup in Stockholm in Greco-Roman. Style. Here he won over the Olympic champion from 1948 in free style Lennart Viitala from Finland , while he suffered defeats from Ali Yücel from Turkey and the Egyptian Mohamed El Ward. In the final bill, however, he took a good 6th place.

In 1952 Edmond Faure was also at the Olympic Games in Helsinki . But he lost there against the reigning world champion in Greco-Roman. Style of the flyweight Bengt Johansson from Sweden and against Ignazio Fabra from Italy , a future world champion, was eliminated and reached 13th place.

His last participation in an international championship took place at the 1953 World Cup in Naples . In Naples he lost a flyweight against Ahmet Bilek from Turkey and Heinrich Weber (Ringer, 1923) from Germany and came in 11th place.

In the years 1950 to 1955, Edmond Faure wrestled with the relay of his club, which at the time was one of the strongest wrestling teams in France, often against Saarland national teams. At that time the Saarland had its own, also internationally recognized wrestling association. He lost u. a. against Heinz Simon from Gersweiler and won over Werner Zimmer from Riegelsberg and Anton Schille from Fürstenhausen and against Heinz Simon in revenge.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

  • 1948, 9th place , OS in London , Gr, Fl, with a victory over Abdullah Sidani, Lebanon a . Defeats against Gyula Szilagyi, Hungary a . Reino Kangasmäki, Finland ;

French championships

  • Greco-Roman Style: 1st place: 1947, 1948, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1953, 1954, 1956, each in Fl, 2nd place: 1952 in Fl u. 1960 in Ba,
  • Free style: 3rd place in 1958 in the Ba

swell

  • Professional journal Athletics , numbers: 20/1950, 16/1951, 15/16/1952, 21/1953, 12/1954 u. 18/1955,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1956, pages O-42, O-49, W-14 u. W-19

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Death report on skyrock.com. Retrieved January 15, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Faure, Edmond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH June 5, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Clermont-Ferrand
DATE OF DEATH February 13, 2008