Jancho Patrikow

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Jancho Patrikow , Bulgarian Янчо Патриков , (born March 15, 1944 in Swetlina , Burgas Oblast ; † May 16, 2014 Debelt , Burgas Oblast) was a Bulgarian wrestler . In 1969 he won the European Championship in free style in the bantamweight .

Career

Jancho Patrikow, who belonged to the army sports club CSKA Sofia and was coached by Rusi Rusew, advanced in the second half of the 1960s into the European top class of bantamweight freestyle wrestlers. He had in Bulgaria even in Ivan Schawow , Kirkor Leonow , Miho Dukow and Mladen Georgiev equal competitors, against whom he could not always prevail. The starting positions at international championships were therefore hotly contested and they were practically divided among these wrestlers.

Jancho Patrikow came to his first appearance at an international championship at the European championship in Karlsruhe in 1966 . He was able to convince there straight away, celebrated four wins and only lost in the final fight against the Soviet wrestler Aydın İbrahimov , which made him the vice- European champion .

Also in 1967 he was at the European Championship, which took place in Istanbul . He came back to 2nd place there. After four wins he lost there against Hasan Sevinc from Turkey and Pawel Maljan from the Soviet Union . In the same year he was also used at the World Cup in New Delhi . There he was able to win the revenge match against Hasan Sevinc, but he lost to Richard Sofman from the United States and Tadamichi Tanaka from Japan and came in 5th place.

His next start was at the European Championships in Sofia in 1969 . There he was able to take advantage of his home advantage and become European champion with five wins . On the way to this title he defeated u. a. László Klinga from Hungary , Mehmet Esenceli from Turkey a . Pavel Maljan.

In 1970 Jancho Patrikow won a World Championship medal in Edmonton with 3rd place in the bantamweight division. It took him four wins. He suffered defeats against South Korean An Jae-woon and Japanese Hideaki Yanagida .

His last start at an international championship made Jancho Patrikow at the 1971 World Cup in Sofia . He won there over Nuoreddin Mejri from Tunisia and Mikulas Timko from the CSSR and fought against the starting wrestlers Zbigniew Żedzicki from Poland and Niculae Dumitru from Romania . A defeat in the fifth round against the Soviet athlete Shatkow then prevented his progress, so he finished the tournament in 7th place.

Jancho Patrikow did not come to Olympic honors. Both in 1968 and 1972 Ivan Schawow was preferred to him. After finishing his international wrestling career, Jancho Patrikow was for many years a successful coach in the Bulgarian national team of freestyle wrestlers.

Jancho Patrikow died on May 16, 2014 at the age of 70 as a result of a traffic accident near the village of Debelt.

International success

(WM = world championship, EM = European championship, F = free style, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 57 kg body weight)

  • 1970, 3rd place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Ba, with victories over Keith Breeze, New Zealand , Edwin O'Neill, South Africa , Othon Moschidis, Greece and others. Zbigniew Żedzicki u. Losses against An Jae-woon, South Africa and Hideaki Yanagida , Japan;
  • 1971, 7th place , World Championship in Sofia, F, Ba, with victories over Noureddin Mejri, Tunisia a . Mikulas Timko, Czechoslovakia , draw against Zbigniew Żedzicki u. Niculae Dumitru et al. a loss to V. Shatkov, USSR

swell

  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of FILA , 1976, pages E-44, E-55, E-68, W-77, W-91 u. W-96

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Борецът Янчо Патриков загина в тежка катастрофа. Obituary to bnews.bg on May 16, 2014 (Bulgarian, accessed on September 11, 2014).
personal data
SURNAME Patrikov, Jancho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Патриков, Янчо (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Svetlina , Burgas Oblast
DATE OF DEATH May 16, 2014
Place of death Debt