Janko Schopow
| Janko Schopow medal table |
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|---|---|---|
| Bulgaria | ||
| World Championship | ||
| silver | 1975 Minsk | Welter |
| silver | 1977 Gothenburg | Welter |
| gold | 1979 San Diego | Welter |
| European Championship | ||
| gold | 1976 Leningrad | Welter |
| bronze | 1977 Bursa | Welter |
| bronze | 1978 Oslo | Welter |
| Junior European Championship | ||
| gold | 1974 Haparanda | Welter espoirs |
Janko Schopow (born August 9, 1954 in Kotel ) is a Bulgarian wrestler . He became world champion in Greco-Roman style welterweight in 1979 .
Career
Janko Schopow began wrestling as a teenager and, because of his talent, went through the support measures that were common there during communist times in Bulgaria . He was a student and started at a height of 1.71 meters in welterweight (class up to 74 kg body weight). He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style.
He made his first start in an international championship in 1974 at the European Junior Championship in Haparanda , Sweden , where he won ahead of the Soviet athlete Taimuraz Abchasawa and Victor Prentiu from Romania . In 1975 it was also at the start in Germany for the first time . He took second place at the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic in Aschaffenburg behind Gheorghe Ciobotaru from Romania and ahead of the two German wrestlers Karl-Heinz Helbing and Hans-Joachim Klötzing . In the same year he was also used at the World Championships in Minsk , where he faced the experienced Soviet athlete Anatoli Bykov , against whom he lost just on points and thus became vice world champion , in the welterweight division after five fights won in the final .
His first victory at an international championship came in 1976 at the European championship in Leningrad. He won there u. a. about such strong wrestlers as Petros Galaktopoulos, Greece, Gheorghe Ciobotaru and in the final battle against Josif Berishvili from the Soviet Union. With that he became European champion. It was then very disappointing for him that he only managed to win against the Hungarian Mihály Toma at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal and then had to retire after the third round after defeats against Vitezlav Macha from the CSSR and Karl-Heinz Helbing only finished 10th.
In 1977 Janko Schopow won two medals with 3rd place at the European Championships in Bursa and 2nd place at the World Championships in Gothenburg . In Bursa he was defeated by Gheorghe Ciobotaru, Vitezlav Macha and Klaus-Peter Göpfert from the GDR , in Gothenburg against Anatoli Bykow and Vitezlav Macha. In the fight against Ferenc Kocsis from Hungary , both wrestlers were disqualified for being passive.
In 1978 he won the bronze medal again at the European Championships in Oslo . He lost there only against Ferenc Kocsis (wrestler) | Ferenc Kocsis. At the World Cup in Mexico City, he only came in 5th place. His defeat against the Soviet starter Arif Niftulajew was decisive for this.
In 1979 he was only at the World Cup in San Diego at the start. He defeated there u. a. his old rivals Stanisław Krzesiński from Poland , Gheorghe Ciobotaru, Karl-Heinz Helbing and the Swedes Lennart Lundell . In the final battle he faced Ferenc Kocsis again . Both wrestlers, who knew each other very well from many tournaments and joint training camps, did not score in this fight and were then both disqualified for passivity. This result was enough for Kocsis to win the title, while Janko Schopow would have fallen back to the ungrateful 4th place. The Bulgarians protested against this interpretation of the regulations and were right. The jury could then make no other decision than to declare Janko Schopow world champion .
At the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow , where only a part of the world class was at the start because of the Olympic boycott of the western states, Janko Schopow again missed a medal, as in 1976. He defeated there u. a. his feared opponent Vítězslav Mácha , but lost to Ferenc Kocsis and Anatoli Bykow and ended up on the ungrateful 4th place.
After these Olympic Games Janko Schopow started at the World Championships in Oslo in 1981 and at the European Championships in Varna in 1982 . At both events, however, he no longer achieved the shape of the years 1975 to 1980 and landed in 6th place each time.
International success
| year | space | competition | Weight class | Results |
| 1974 | 1. | Junior European Championship (Espoirs) in Haparanda | Welter | before Taimuras Abchasawa , USSR a . Victor Prentiu, Romania |
| 1975 | 5. | "Klippan" tournament in Klippan / Sweden | Welter | behind Wladimir Semkow, USSR, Jan Karlsson , Sweden, Veikko Lavonen, Finland a . Karl-Heinz Gansserich, FRG |
| 1975 | 2. | Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg | Welter | behind Gheorghe Ciobotaru , Romania, in front of Karl-Heinz Helbing u. Hans-Joachim Klötzinng, bde. FRG |
| 1975 | 2. | World Cup in Minsk | Welter | with victories over Hans-Joachim Klötzing, Mikko Huhtala , Finland, Vojislav Tabacki, Yugoslavia , Mihály Toma , Hungary a . Murat Toklu, Turkey a . a loss to Anatoly Bykov , USSR |
| 1976 | 1. | EM in Leningrad | Welter | with victories over Petros Galaktopoulos , Greece , Jacques van Lancker, Belgium , Josip Major, Yugoslavia, Johann Kiss, Austria , Klaus-Peter Kossow, GDR , Gheorghe Ciobotaru u. Josof Berishvili, USSR |
| 1976 | 10. | OS in Montreal | Welter | with a victory over Mihály Toma u. Defeats against Vitezlav Macha , CSSR a . Karl-Heinz Helbing |
| 1977 | 3. | EM in Bursa | Welter | with victories over Wladimir Semkow, Mikko Huhtala u. Stanislaus Krzezinski , Poland a. Losses against Gheorghe Ciobotaru, Vitezlav Macha u. Klaus-Peter Göpfert , GDR |
| 1977 | 2. | World Cup in Gothenburg | Welter | with victories over Seev Siegelbaum, Israel , Feleciano Marotto, Italy , Days Weirum, Denmark u. Mikko Huhtala et al. Defeats against Anatoli Bykow, Vitezlav Macha etc. Ferenc Kocsis , Hungary (double disqualification), Hungary |
| 1978 | 1. | "Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig | Welter | before Nedko Nedew , Bulgaria , Triebel, GDR a. Karl-Heinz Helbing |
| 1978 | 3. | EM in Oslo | Welter | with victories over Carlssen, Norway , Karoly Kasap , Yugoslavia, Georg Brötzner, Austria a . Stanilaus Krzezinski u. Defeats against Anatoli Bykow u. Ferenc Kocsis (wrestler) | Ferenc Kocsis |
| 1978 | 5. | World Cup in Mexico City | Welter | with victories over Vicente Gonzalez, Mexico a . Lennart Lundell , Sweden a . Defeats to Gheorghe Ciobotaru u. Arif Niftulayev , USSR |
| 1979 | 2. | "Klippan" tournament | Welter | behind Arif Niftulajew, in front of K. Karlsson, Sweden a. Mikko Huhtala |
| 1979 | 1. | World Cup in San Diego | Welter | with victories over John Matthews, USA , Stanislaus Krzezinski, Gheorghe Ciobotaru, Lennart Lundell u. Karl-Heinz Helbing, final fight against Ferenc Kocsis without evaluation |
| 1980 | 4th | Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg | Welter | Ferenc Kocsis, Andrzej Supron , Poland a. Anatoly Bykov |
| 1980 | 4th | OS in Moscow | Welter | with victories over Karoly Kasap, Kaj Jägersgaard, Denmark a . Vitezlav Macha u. Defeats against Ferenc Kocsis (wrestler) | Ferenc Kocsis u. Anatoly Bykov |
| 1981 | 6th | World Cup in Oslo | Welter | with victories over Karl-Heinz Helbing , Karoly Kasap u. Trond Kvalheim, Norway a. Losses against Alexander Kudryavzew , USSR a. Wieslaw Dziadura, Poland |
| 1982 | 3. | Grand Prix of the FRG in Freiburg | Welter | behind Andrzej Supron, Alexander Kudrjawzew u. Karoly Kasap |
| 1982 | 6th | EM in Varna | Welter | behind Andrzej Supron, Roger Tallroth , Sweden, Karoly Kasap, Alexander Kudrjawzew u. Ștefan Rusu , Romania |
literature
- Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer
Web links
- Profile of Janko Schopow at the Institute for Applied Training Science
- Janko Schopow in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schopow, Janko |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian wrestler |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 9, 1954 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kotel |