Mihai Boțilă

Mihai Boțilă (born January 14, 1952 in Grozeşti , Mehedinți County ) is a former Romanian wrestler . In 1976 and 1978 he was vice European champion in the Greco-Roman style bantamweight.

Career

Mihai Boțilă began wrestling as a teenager. He belonged to the sports club Dacia Piteşti , where Emil Balanescu was his coach. He wrestled exclusively in the Greco-Roman style and was already very successful as a junior. The 1.59 meter tall athlete wrestled in bantamweight throughout his career, at that time up to 57 kg body weight.

In 1970 he was in Huskvarna Junior European Bantamweight Champion in front of the Yugoslavs Ivan Frgić and Mehmet Aslandag from Turkey . He repeated this success in 1972 in the oldest junior class (Espoirs) in Hvar . Here he won the bantamweight before Per Lindholm from Sweden and the Soviet wrestler Rafael Eiwazow. 1973 started Mihai Boțilă at the student world championship in Moscow and finished there in bantamweight the 5th place.

Then it took until 1976 before he was used again in an international championship. This year he started at the European Championships in Leningrad and came there with five wins and one defeat against Farchat Mustafin from the USSR on the 2nd place. On the way to the final he defeated u. a. Bernd Drechsel from Zella-Mehlis and Hans-Jürgen Veil from Schifferstadt . At the Olympic Games in Montreal he represented Romania in the bantamweight division and landed three wins there. But he lost to Pertti Ukkola from Finland and Farchat Mustafin and took a good 5th place.

At the European Championships in Bursa in 1977 he was able to convince again. He won there u. a. about such strong wrestlers as Czesław Stanjek from Poland and Asen Milew from Bulgaria . But he lost against József Doncsecz from Hungary and Farchat Mustafin, but came in 3rd place and thus won an EM bronze medal .

In 1978 Mihai Boțilă was again vice European champion in Oslo . His victories over József Doncsecz and Józef Lipień from Poland were remarkable . Again he was inferior to the Soviet starter, this time Vladimir Pogudin . At this year's World Cup in Mexico City , he defeated u. a. Benni Ljungbeck from Sweden, but was defeated by Pasquale Passarelli from the Federal Republic of Germany and with the 4th place just missed the medal ranks.

He also missed the medal ranks at the 1979 European Championships in Bucharest . Because of defeats against Shamil Serikow from the USSR and Josef Krysta from Czechoslovakia , it was only enough for him to finish 4th. The 1980 European Championship in Prievidza was very disappointing for Mihai Boțilă . He lost there in rounds 1 and 2 against Benni Ljungbeck and Witali Konstantinow from the USSR and had to retire without a win. He ended up in 9th place. He was then sent to the Olympic Games in Moscow . But here too the bad luck remained true to him, because although he was there u. a. defeated the Finnish Olympic champion from 1976 Pertti Ukkola , after a defeat against Schamil Serikow and a double disqualification in the fight against Józef Lipień he landed again on the ungrateful 4th place.

After the Olympic Games in Moscow Mihai Boțilă ended his international wrestling career. He hit the coaching office and trains the Romanian junior national team in the Greco-Roman style. He is also employed at the Romanian Olympic Center for Wrestlers in Piteşti , and in 2008 he is a member of the Presidium of the Romanian Wrestling Association. He is currently the director of the “Complexul Sportiv Național” in Budeasa .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championships, EM = European Championships, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantamweight)

• 1970, 1st place , European Junior Championships in Huskvarna , GR, Ba, ahead of Ivan Frgić , Yugoslavia a . Mehmet Aslandag, Turkey ;
• 1972, 1st place , Junior European Championship in Hvar , GR, Ba, ahead of Per Lindholm , Sweden , Rafael Eiwazow, USSR a . Ivan Frgić;
• 1972, 3rd place , intern. Romanian Championship in Bucharest , GR, Ba, behind Dumitru u. Badea, both Romania;
• 1973, 5th place , Student World Cup in Moscow , GR, Ba, behind E. Feinstein, USSR, G. Molnar, Hungary , W. Davids, USA a . R. Botew, Bulgaria , before M. Minguzzi, Italy ;
• 1976, 2nd place , EM in Leningrad , GR, Ba, with victories over Bernd Drechsel , GDR , Jean-Pierre Mercader, France , Hans-Jürgen Veil , FRG , Josef Krysta , CSSR a . Krasimir Stefanow , Bulgaria a. a loss to Farchat Mustafin , USSR;
• 1976, 5th place , OS in Montreal , GR, Ba, with victories over Józef Lipień , Poland , An Chun-yung, South Korea and others. Josef Krysta u. Losses against Pertti Ukkola , Finland a. Farchat Mustafin;
• 1977, 3rd place , EM in Bursa , GR, Ba, with victories over Fred Holm, Norway , Nevzat Köz, Turkey , Czesław Stanjek , Poland and others. Asen Milew, Bulgaria a. Losses against József Doncsecz , Hungary a . Farchat Mustafin;
• 1978, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, Ba, behind Witali Konstantinow , USSR a. before Benni Ljungbeck , Sweden, Piotr Michalik , Poland a. Pasquale Passarelli , FRG;
• 1978, 2nd place , EM in Oslo , GR, Ba, with victories over Lame, Albania , Joszef Doenczez, Józef Lipień u. Einari Suutari, Finland a. a loss to Vladimir Pogudin , USSR;
• 1978, 4th place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, Ba, with victories over Benni Ljungbeck, Asen Milew, Pablo Gomez, Mexico , Herbert Nigsch, Austria a . Yuji Asa, Japan et al. a loss to Pasquale Passarelli ;
• 1979, 4th place , EM in Bucharest , GR, Ba, with victories over Einari Suutari a. Herbert Nigsch u. Defeats against Shamil Serikow , USSR a. Josef Krysta;
• 1980, 1st place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, Ba, ahead of Wladyslaw Pakuszewski, Poland, Witali Konstantinow, Benni Ljungbeck, Julien Mewis , Belgium and Pasquale Passarelli;
• 1980, 9th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, Ba, after defeats against Benni Ljungbeck and Witali Konstantinow;
• 1980, 4th place , OS in Moscow , GR, Ba, with victories over Moutli Nakdali, Syria , Pertti Ukkola u. Antonio Caltabiano , Italy a. Defeats against Schamil Serikow u. Józef Lipień

swell

• Professional magazine Athletics , numbers: 5/70, 6/72, 8/72, 4/73, 5/76 and 9/76
• Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 6/7/77, 5/78, 6/78, 9/78, 5/79, 4/80, 5/80 u. 8/80
• Documentation of FILA International Wrestling Championships , 1976

Web links

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