Yuri Soltanbekowitsch Gussow

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Yuri Soltanbekowitsch Gussow ( Russian Юрий Солтанбекович Гусов ; born March 17, 1940 in Ordzhonikidze ; † 2002 ) was a Soviet wrestler of Ossetian descent.

Career

Uriy Gusov grew up in Ossetia in the Soviet Union. Even then, Ossetia was a center of wrestling in the USSR. He began wrestling in Ordzhonikidze . Under his coach K. Sumenow, he made good progress quickly and was one of the best Soviet freestyle wrestlers in the lightweight and welterweight classes from the early 1960s. After he was accepted into the Soviet national wrestling team, he was mainly looked after by former world champion A. Yaltyrjan.

In 1967 he was the first Soviet lightweight champion. He won this title a total of four times, which must be described as extraordinary given the strength and breadth of the Soviet wrestler. He made his debut at an international championship at the European Championships in Skopje in 1968 with a second place in the lightweight. In his five fights he remained undefeated, fought against Enju Valtschew-Dimow from Bulgaria a draw and came because of the poorer points ratio from the preliminary fights in second place behind Valtschew.

At the Olympic Games of the same year his Georgian compatriot Zarbeg Beriaschwili was preferred to him, with whom he was also in fierce competition in the following years for the starting places for the international championships.

At the European Championships in Sofia in 1969 , Gusow succeeded in winning the title with six superior victories. In the final he won over Wolfgang Nitschke from Leipzig . Yuri Gusow got his next assignment at the World Championships in Sofia in 1971 . He justified this trust, because he became world champion, a loss to the Japanese Yosuke Nagano did not change anything.

The 1972 Olympic Games in Munich were to be the highlight of his career . But Gusow did not succeed in winning a medal. After two victories he was defeated by Adolf Seger from Germany and the next day, August 30, against Mansoor Barzegar from Iran . and had to be content with ninth place. After this disappointing performance, he was no longer used internationally by the Soviet team leadership.

After his active wrestling career, Gusow was a coach in Georgia .

successes

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = Freestyle, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, back then up to 70 kg or 74 kg body weight)

  • 1971, 1st place , World Cup in Sofia, F, We, with victories over Josef Völc, CSSR, Nikifor Kuzmanow, Bulgaria, Nitschke and Mohammad Farhangdoust, Iran and despite a defeat against Yosuke Nagano, Japan ;
  • 1972, 9th place , OS in Munich , F, We, with victories over Alfred Wurr, Canada and Ludovic Ambrus and defeats against Mansoor Barzegar , Iran and Adolf Seger, FRG

Soviet championships

Yuri Gusow was Soviet champion in 1967 and 1968 in lightweight and 1969 and 1970 in welterweight , each in free style.

Web links and sources

  • DOCUMENTATION of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
  • International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig
  • Brief portrait of Juri Gusow (English)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Column 1: "World champions eliminated" . In: Arbeiter-Zeitung . Vienna August 31, 1972, p. 13 ( berufer-zeitung.at - the open online archive - digitized).
personal data
SURNAME Gussow, Yuri Soltanbekowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Гусов, Юрий Солтанбекович (Russian); Guso, Uriy; Gusov, Yuri
BRIEF DESCRIPTION soviet wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Ordzhonikidze
DATE OF DEATH 2002