Efraim Kamberow

Efraim Kamberow (born July 30, 1957 in Vrani, Turgovitse district) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He became European middleweight freestyle champions in 1982 and 1984 .

Career

Efraim Kamberow began wrestling as a teenager at the "Ludogorez" Razgrad sports club . He concentrated on the free style. After joining the Bulgarian army, he was given special support there due to his talent at the sports club "Slavia" Sofia and reached the top Bulgarian class of freestyle wrestlers as a junior. His coaches were Yumer Fekriew and Schjasko Dimitriew. With a height of only 1.68 m, Efraim Kamberow was a middleweight wrestler who was physically very strong and benefited from this strength, coupled with good technique.

In 1978 he won the middleweight title at the European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Oulu in front of the strong Soviet athlete Oleg Kalojew . At the 1979 European Championships, where he represented the injured world champion Ismail Abilow, he achieved a good 5th place in the middleweight division with two wins. He lost against Reşit Karabacak from Turkey and Adolf Seger from Germany . After that, it was not until 1981 that Efraim Kamberow, after the resignation of the 1980 Olympic champion Ismail Abilow , became number 1 in the senior middleweight division in Bulgaria . In 1981 he finished second both at the European Championships in Lodz and at the World Championships in Skoplje . In Lodz he was defeated in the final against Oleg Kalojew on points and in Skoplje it was the American Christopher Campbell who defeated him. At these events Efraim Kamberow u. a. twice via Peter Syring from the GDR and in Lodz also via Alfred Sutter from the FRG.

At the European Championship in 1982 in Varna , Efraim Kamberow managed to win the first title. He was there before the Soviet athletes Wladimir Modosjan and Peter Syring European middleweight champion. He also performed excellently at the World Championships in Edmonton / Canada that year. He lost in the final against Taimuras Dzgojew from the Soviet Union , but left such outstanding wrestlers as David Schultz from the USA, Akira Ōta from Japan and Leszek Ciota from Poland behind.

Efraim Kamberow also proved his reliability in 1983. At the European Championships in Budapest he came second behind the surprise winner Reşit Karabacak from Turkey and at the 1983 World Championships in Kiev Taimuras Dzgojew and Dzewegiin Düwtschin from Mongolia placed ahead of him.

At the European Championships in Jönköping in 1984 , he appeared again in excellent form. He won there u. a. over the Soviet representative Luchman Dschabrailow and won the final battle against Reiner Trik from the Federal Republic of Germany with 9: 0 points. It was tragic for him that the socialist countries boycotted the Los Angeles Olympics . An Efraim Kamberow in the form of the 1984 European Championship would certainly have had a good chance of winning the gold medal in Los Angeles.

Efraim Kamberow resigned from active wrestling at the end of 1984. He was persuaded in 1987 to try a comeback in the light heavyweight division because the Bulgarian freestyle wrestlers in this weight class had not done particularly well at the international championships and the 1987 European championship was held in Veliko Tarnowo , Bulgaria . The comeback also succeeded, because Efraim Kamberow fought his way up to the finals and was only defeated in this by the exceptional Soviet athlete Macharbek Chadarzew . After winning this runner-up European title, he finally resigned.

Efraim Kamberow was an officer in the Bulgarian People's Army. Nothing is known about his further life.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, F = free style, Mi = middleweight, Hs = light heavyweight, back then up to 82 kg or 90 kg body weight)

• 1978, 1st place , European Junior Championships (Espoirs) in Oulu , F, Wed before Oleg Kalojew , USSR , Gül, Turkey , Gheorghe Fodorea, Romania a . Alfred Sutter, FRG ;

• 1979, 5th place , EM in Bucharest , F, Wed, with victories over Pawel Szabo, Czechoslovakia a . Peter Syring , GDR a . Defeats against Reşit Karabacak , Turkey a. Adolf Seger , FRG;

• 1981, 2nd place , EM in Lodz , F, Wed, with victories over Alfred Sutter, Peter Syring a. Michel Mege, France a . a loss to Oleg Kaloyev;

• 1981, 2nd place , World Cup in Skoplje , F, Wed, with victories over Akira Ōta , Japan , Peter Syring, Konstantin Marasescu, Romania, Abdullah Nemedi, Yugoslavia and others. Dsewegiin Düwtschin , Mongolia a . a loss to Christopher Campbell , USA :

• 1982, 1st place , EM in Varna , F, Wed, ahead of Wladimir Modosjan, USSR, Peter Syring, Leszek Ciota , Poland a. Ricardo Nicolini, Italy ;

• 1982, 2nd place , World Cup in Edmonton / Canada , F, Wed, behind Taimuras Dsgojew , USSR and in front of David Schultz , USA, Akira Ōta u. Leszek Ciota;

• 1983, 2nd place , EM in Budapest, F, Wed, behind Resit Karabacak u. before Georgi Makasaraschwili , USSR, Jozef Lohyňa , CSSR, Gheorghe Fodorea a. Georgios Dermitzakis, Greece ;

• 1983, 3rd place , World Championships in Kiev , F, Wed, behind Taimuras Dzgojew and Dzewegiin Düwtschin u. in front of Jozef Lohyna, Resit Karabacak u. Leszek Ciota;

• 1984, 1st place , EM in Jönköping , F, Wed, with victories over Hubert Bindels, Belgium , Mehmet Turkaya, Turkey, Luciano Ortelli, Italy, Luchman Dschabrailow , USSR, Gheorghe Fodorea u. Reiner Trik , Germany;

• 1987, 2nd place , EM in Veliko Tarnowo , F, Hs, behind Macharbek Chadarzew , USSR a. in front of Resit Karabacak, Iraklios Deskoulidis, Greece, Bodo Lukowski , BRD a. Jerzy Niec, Poland

swell

• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers 5/1979, pages 6–8, 5/1981, pages 5–8, 10/1981, pages 6–7, 5/6/1982, pages 4–6, 9/1982, pages 4– 6, 9/1983, page 9, 10/1983, pages 3-6, 5/1984, pages 10-12 and 6/1987, pages 6-9,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web link

• Profile of Efraim Kamberow at the Institute for Applied Training Science