Micho Dukow

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Micho Ivanov Dukow (also Miho Ivanov Dukov written Bulgarian Михо Иванов Дуков * 29. October 1955 in Schiwatschewo , Oblast Sliven ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He won a free style featherweight silver medal at the 1980 Olympics . In addition, he was three times European champion in free style in feather or lightweight.

Career

Micho Dukow began wrestling as a teenager in 1963. Even as a junior he performed very well and was then, after joining the Bulgarian army, delegated to the CSKA Sofia army sports club . His coach there was Jantscho Patrikow , a formerly very successful Bulgarian freestyle wrestler. Micho Dukow also concentrated entirely on free style. At a height of 1.68 meters, he started his international career in the bantamweight division, but then grew from featherweight to lightweight.

He celebrated his first major international success at the 1974 European Junior Championship in Haparanda . He was there in the bantamweight winner before Gigel Anghel from Romania and the Soviet athlete Gurgen Bagdasarjan. In 1955 he was also very successful in the juniors, because he was even junior world champion in bantamweight in Chaskowo ahead of Gurgen Bagdasarjan and Gigel Anghel.

In 1975, however, it was also used by senior citizens. He managed to win a medal with the silver medal at the European Bantamweight Championships in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . He defeated the experienced László Klinga from Hungary and Zbigniew Żedzicki from Poland . He only had to admit defeat to the outstanding Soviet freestyle wrestler Vladimir Jumin . He also won a medal at the World Championships in Minsk . He finished third and received the bronze medal for it . He was defeated after three victories by Vladimir Jumin and the Japanese surprise world champion Masao Arai .

Also at the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal Micho Dukow was defeated in bantamweight against Jumin and Arai. Due to these defeats, he was only enough for him in Montreal to the ungrateful 4th place despite his victories over Gordon Smith from Australia , Gigel Anghel , Ramezan Kheder from Iran and Zbigniew Żedzicki.

At the European Championships in 1977 in Bursa , Micho Dukow started in featherweight for the first time. But his main competitor Wladimir Jumin had also moved up into this weight class and defeated him again in the final battle. Micho Dukow was again Vice European Champion . On the way to this success he suggested u. a. the two German participants Helmut Strumpf from Jena and Eduard Giray from Freiburg . At the 1977 World Championships in Lausanne , he then defeated u. a. the ex-world champion Mohsen Faravashi from Iran was defeated again by Vladimir Jumin and the American James Humphrey and came in 3rd place.

In 1978 Micho Dukow finally won the European featherweight title in Sofia in the absence of Vladimir Jumin. He defeated u. a. the top wrestlers Saipula Absaidow from the USSR, Zoltan Szalontai from Hungary and Vehbi Akdağ from Turkey . At the World Cup this year in Mexico City , he disappointed a bit and surprisingly lost to Vladimir Jumin and Iranian Mohamed Rezaeh and only achieved 6th place.

Micho Dukow won his second European title in 1979 in Bucharest . He won there u. a. about Erhard Pocher from the GDR , Jan Szymański from Poland and in the final battle Eduard Giray from the FRG, who finished second behind him. At the 1979 World Cup in San Diego , Micho Dukow seemed to be on his way to his first world title when he defeated his eternal adversary Vladimir Jumin on points. He then lost, surprisingly, to the American Andre Metzger , who in turn had lost to Jumin. After the end of the fighting, Jumin had the fewest missing points and thus became world champion again despite his defeat against Dukow . Dukow became vice world champion and Andre Metzger came third.

In 1980 Micho Dukow concentrated entirely on the Olympic Games in Moscow . He achieved five wins over consistently tough opponents. In the final battle, he was not facing Vladimir Yumin, but his 21-year-old representative Magomet-Gassan Abuschew . Although Abuschew had little international experience, he defeated Micho Dukow on points and relegated him to 2nd place.

Micho Dukow continued his career in 1981 and appeared there for the first time in the lightweight. At the European Championships in Łódź , he also convinced in this new weight class and beat u. a. Eberhard Probst from the GDR , Kiro Ristow from Yugoslavia and Michail Tscharatschura from the USSR , which meant winning his third European championship.

Surprisingly, he didn't continue his career after all. He was no longer at the 1981 World Cup. Instead, he began training as a sports teacher and then worked at CSKA Sofia as a wrestling trainer. After 1990 worked as a trainer in Switzerland for several years . In 2002 and 2003 he was the head coach of the Bulgarian national team of freestyle wrestlers.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Ba = bantamweight, Fe = featherweight, Le = lightweight, back then up to 57 kg, 62 kg and 68 kg body weight)

  • 1975, 1st place , Junior World Championships in Chaskowo , F, Ba, ahead of Gurgen Bagdasarjan u. Gigel Anghel;
  • 1975, 3rd place , World Championships in Minsk , F, Ba, with victories over Amrik Singh Gill, Great Britain , Grigoire Condrat, Romania a. Mark Massery, USA a . Defeats against Vladimir Jumin u. Masao Arai , Japan ;
  • 1976, 4th place , OS in Montreal , F, Ba, with victories over Gordon Smith, Australia , Gigel Anghel, Ramezan Kheder , Iran and others. Zbigniew Żedzicki u. Defeats against Masao Arai u. Vladimir Jumin;
  • 1977, 2nd place , EM in Bursa , F, Fe, with victories over Panag Koutsoupakis, Greece, Eduard Giray , FRG , Helmut Strumpf , GDR , Sandor Lajos, Hungary a. Marian Filipowski, Poland a. a loss to Vladimir Yumin;
  • 1979, 2nd place , World Championships in San Diego , F, Fe, with victories over Juneo Taka, Japan, John Park, Canada, Zoltan Szalontai u. Wladimir Jumin et al. a loss to Andre Metzger , USA;

swell

  • Professional magazine Athletics , Numbers: 6/1974, 7/1975,
  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 6/7/1977, 11/1977, 5/1978, 9/1978, 5/1979, 9/1979, 8/1980 u. 5/1981,
  • Documentation of International Wrestling Championships of the FILA , 1976, pages: W-130, O-104, E-107

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personal data
SURNAME Dukow, Micho
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dukow, Micho Iwanow; Dukov, Miho Ivanov; Дуков, Михо Иванов (Bulgarian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH October 29, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Zhivachevo , Sliven Oblast