Maurice Mewis

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Maurice Mewis (born September 16, 1929 in Antwerp , † February 23, 2017 ) was a Belgian wrestler . He won a bronze medal at the 1953 Greco-Roman style flyweight championship .

Career

Maurice Mewis comes from Antwerp and started wrestling there as a teenager in 1945. The only 1.55 meter tall athlete competed in both styles, but preferred the Greco-Roman style, which is surprising, because in Belgium in his time mainly the free style was cultivated. He always started in flyweight (back then up to 52 kg body weight). His brother Joseph Mewis , who is a year and a half younger than him, was also an excellent wrestler, who even won the silver medal in featherweight free style at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.

Maurice Mewis made his first start at an international championship at the 1950 World Cup in Stockholm . In the Greco-Roman style, he took a good 6th place with a victory over the strong Italian Giovanni Cocco . He was even more successful at the 1951 World Cup in Helsinki , which was held in free style. He created a small sensation there in his first fight when he defeated the high favorite and Olympic champion of 1948 Lennart Viitala in front of the Finnish audience . In the next few fights he lost against Mahmoud Mollaghassemi from Iran and against Ali Yücel from Turkey , but took an excellent 4th place.

At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , Maurice Mewis started again in the Greco-Roman style. After victories over Josef Zeman from Czechoslovakia and Dumitru Pârvulescu from Romania, he lost to the Soviet champion Boris Gurewitsch and the reigning world champion Bengt Johansson from Sweden . With these results, he finished 7th.

Maurice Mewis celebrated the greatest success of his career at the 1953 World Cup in Naples . Due to a favorable constellation, victories over Josef Zeman and Karl-Erik Andersson from Sweden were enough for him to win the bronze medal in Greco-Roman. Flyweight style. He was less successful at the 1955 World Cup in Karlsruhe . He was defeated there in the Greco-Roman style against Heinrich Weber , Germany and Karl-Erik Andersson and ended up in 15th place.

At the Olympic Games in Melbourne in 1956 he reached 7th place with a victory over Malte Hakansson from Australia and defeats against Borivoje Vukov , Yugoslavia and Istvan Baranya , Hungary, as in Helsinki. Maurice Mewis achieved a very good result again at the 1958 World Cup in Budapest . In Greco-Roman Style he won there u. a. about Eckhard Thorun from the GDR . He also wrestled against the top wrestlers Borivoje Vukov, Boris Gurewitsch and Dursun Ali Egribas from Turkey. A defeat against Sandor Kerekes from Hungary threw him back to the ungrateful 4th place.

At the 1959 World Cup in Tehran, he landed in free style after defeats against Luigi Chinazzo, Italy and Ahmet Bilek from Turkey in 9th place. At the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome , he started flying again in Greco-Roman. Style and finished 10th with a win over Finland's Heikki Hakola.

In 1963 Maurice Mewis finished 12th at the World Championships in Greco-Roman style in Helsingborg . There he only managed one victory over Josef Kolar from Czechoslovakia. In 1964, at the age of 35, he competed in the Olympic Games for the fourth time. In Tokyo he reached in Greco-Roman. Style with victories over Shin Sang-Shik, South Korea , Burhan Bozkurt , Turkey and Ahmad Khoshoi from Iran an excellent 4th place. He only missed a medal by losing to Tsutomu Hanahara from Japan .

At the end of his career, Maurice Mewis won the 1966 European Championship in Essen in the Greco-Roman. Style with three wins and one draw another bronze medal .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Fl = flyweight, back then up to 52 kg body weight)

  • 1959, 9th place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Fl, after defeats against Luigi Chinazzo , Italy a. Ahmet Bilek;
  • 1963, 12th place , World Cup in Helsingborg , GR, Fl, with a victory over Josef Kolar, Czechoslovakia, a draw against Angel Keresow , Bulgaria and the like. a loss to Ahmet Bilek;

swell

  • Professional journal Athletics, numbers: 8/1950, 10/11/1951, 8/9/1952, 8/10/1953, 9/10/1955, 1/1957, 15/16/1958, 23/1959, 18/19 / 1960, * Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA. 1976, pages W 53, O 73 u. E 47

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personal data
SURNAME Mewis, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH September 16, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp
DATE OF DEATH 23rd February 2017