Krali Bimbalow

Krali Petiew Bimbalow (born November 1, 1934 , † in the 20th century) was a Bulgarian wrestler . He was at the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome in Greco-Roman style winner of the silver medal in the light heavyweight division.

Career

Krali Bimbalow started wrestling at the age of 18. He was one of the wrestlers who dealt exclusively with the Greco-Roman style in the development phase of Bulgarian wrestling after 1945. That was a peculiarity, because most Bulgarian wrestlers in those years wrestled in free style, which was due to the fact that many came from the Turkish minority in Bulgaria and came from oil wrestling . Krali Bimbalow was a physically unusually strong, stocky wrestler with a height of only 1.78 m.

In 1960, Krali Bimbalow qualified in Bulgaria for the start at the Olympic Games in Rome . He started there in the light heavyweight division. He came to four point wins and wrestled with the Turkish Tevfik Kış . Kış also won four times on points. At the end of the 5th round, Kış and Bimbalow each had four point wins and one draw and 6 missing points each. But Tewfik Kis was declared the Olympic champion , while Krali Bimbalow had to be satisfied with the silver medal . From today's perspective, this is no longer understandable.

At the 1961 World Cup in Yokohama , Krali Bimbalow could not start because Bulgaria did not take part in this World Cup because of the high costs involved. But he started at the 1962 World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) . As a result of a new division of the weight classes made by the international wrestling federation (FILA), he was now middleweight with a body weight of 87 kg. In Toledo he won over the Americans Russel Camilleri and Gheorghe Popovici from Romania and fought against Stig Persson from Sweden , Anatoli Kirow from the Soviet Union and Tevfik Kış. These results put him in 2nd place.

At the 1963 World Cup in Helsingborg , Krali Bimbalow was not so successful. Because after winning two fights he lost to György Gurics from Hungary and Nikolai Tschutschalow from the USSR and finished in 7th place in the middleweight division.

The last time Krali Bimbalow started in 1964 at an international championship. That was the Olympic Games in Tokyo . He came here in the middleweight division to two victories, but reached against Yavuz Selekman from Turkey and Géza Hollósi from Hungary only a draw and lost to Lothar Metz from the German team and finished in 6th place.

In 1965, Krali Bimbalow was replaced by Petar Krumow in Bulgaria . His hometown of Burgas posthumously awarded him honorary citizenship in 2000.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Mi = middleweight, from 1962 up to 87 kg body weight, Hs = light heavyweight, up to 1961 up to 87 kg, from 1962 up to 97 kg body weight)

• 1957, 2nd place , III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow , GR, Hs, behind Rostom Abashidze , USSR a . before Gheorghe Popovici , Romania ;

• 1959, 4th place , tournament in Split , GR, Hs, behind Gheorghe Popovici, Ernst Ganssert , FRG a . Rukavina, Yugoslavia , before Bengt Lindblad , Sweden a . Eugen Wiesberger , Austria ;

• 1960, silver medal , OS in Rome , GR, Hs, with victories over Wlodzimierz Smolinski , Poland , Maurice Jacquel , France , Eugen Wiesberger u. Peter Piti , Hungary a. a tie against Tevfik Kış , Turkey ;

• 1962, 2nd place , World Championships in Toledo (Ohio) , GR, Wed, with victories over Gheorghe Popovici u. Russell Camilleri , USA a. Draw against Stig Persson , Sweden, Anatoli Kirow , USSR a. Tevfik Kış;

• 1963, 7th place , World Championships in Helsingborg , GR, Wed, with victories over Vassilious Papoulias, Greece a . Ernst Zesiger, Switzerland a . Defeats against György Gurics , Hungary a. Nikolai Chuchalov , USSR;

• 1964, 6th place , OS in Tokyo , GR, Wed, with victories over Lee Ki-Yul , North Korea a . Pentti Punkari , Finland , draw against Yavuz Selekman , Turkey a. Géza Hollósi , Hungary a. a loss to Lothar Metz , Germany

swell

• Athletics magazine from 1957 to 1964,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Website "www.iat.uni-leipzig.de",
• Bulgarian Olympic Committee website

Web links

• Profile of Krali Bimbalow at the Institute for Applied Training Science
• Krali Bimbalow in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ List of honorary citizens of the city of Burgas. Retrieved December 4, 2018 .