Igor Dmitrievich Rostorotsky

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Igor Rostorozki , also: Rostorotsky , ( Russian Игорь Дмитриевич Ростороцкий ; born February 4, 1962 in Anapa , Krasnodar region ) is a former Soviet wrestler .

Career

Igor Rostorozki started wrestling at the age of 13 in Karaganda . After initial success, he joined the local top club Dynamo Karaganda. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style and grew to a super heavyweight of 1.95 m tall and almost 130 kg body weight. In 1981 he was appointed to the Soviet national wrestling team under national coach Gennady Sapunov .

Igor Rostorozki became the U23 super heavyweight world champion in 1981 and won the gold medal at the U23 European Championships in Leipzig the following year . At that time, the Swede Tomas Johansson was one of his main rivals, and Rostorozki would meet him several times in his career.

Rostorozki had his first appearance at an international senior championship in 1984 when he started at the European championships in Jönköping . In the super heavy weight class, he was defeated by the old master Alexandar Tomow from Bulgaria , who was world champion five times in the seventies . Thus, Rostorozki remained only the fight for the bronze medal, which he won against Refik Memišević from Yugoslavia without any problems. A start at the Olympic Games in Los Angeles that same year was blocked by his country's Olympic boycott.

In 1985 Rostorozki started again at the European Championships in Leipzig and won his first international title in a superior manner. In the autumn of the same year he also secured the world championship title for the first time in Kolbotn, Norway . He defeated the Romanian Ioan Grigoraș in the final .

A year later, Rostorozki had to be content with the role of substitute starter despite his success behind compatriot Vladimir Grigoryev . In one of his few international appearances this year, he managed at least one victory in a World Cup tournament in Oak Lawns, USA .

In 1987 Rostorozki was able to prevail again in the national eliminations and ultimately repeated his success from two years ago with the renewed win of the European and world championship titles. Both at the European Championships in Tampere , at the Rostorozki in a preliminary round fight and a. also defeated the German champion Hans-Günter Klein , and in the World Cup final in Clermont-Ferrand , his final opponent was Tomas Johansson from Sweden.

As the reigning world champion, Igor Rostorozki was at the height of his career at the age of 26. Presumably he would have celebrated even more great successes had it not been for unprecedented competition from his own camp from the mid- eighties to the then reigning junior world champion Alexander Karelin . After he had been able to put the young man from Krasnoyarsk in his place in a direct comparison in the previous years , Rostorozki had to make way for his six-year-old opponent at the Soviet championships in 1988 when he lost prematurely in the battle for Olympic qualification for Seoul . This victory for Karelin was the beginning of an unprecedented era that would last until the year 2000 and with three Olympic victories and 9 world championship titles, he would become the dominant figure in wrestling. For Igor Rostorozki, however, this defeat meant the end of his international career. Only in November 1988 did he start again at a World Cup tournament in Athens , which he won.

Others

After finishing his wrestling career, Igor Rostorozki completed his law degree and has been working as a lawyer ever since.

Competition balance (overview)

year competition place space Style Weight class
1981 U20 world championships 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1982 U20 European Championships Leipzig 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1984 European championships Jonkoping 3 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1985 FILA Grand Prix Västerås 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1985 European championships Leipzig 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1985 World championships Kolbotn 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1986 World cup Oak lawns 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1987 European championships Tampere 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1987 World championships Clermont-Ferrand 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1987 FILA Grand Prix Budapest 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight
1988 World cup Athens 1 Greco-Roman Super heavyweight

International success

(WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, SS = super heavyweight, up to 130 kg body weight)

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personal data
SURNAME Rostorozki, Igor Dmitrievich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rostorotsky, Igor; Ростороцкий, Игорь Дмитриевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Anapa , Krasnodar Territory , Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic , Soviet Union