Nikolai Fyodorowitsch Balboschin

Nikolai Fyodorowitsch Balboschin

Nikolai Balboschin medal table
Wrestler
Soviet Union
Olympic games
gold	1976 Montreal	Heavy
World Championship
gold	1973 Tehran	Heavy
gold	1974 Katowice	Heavy
gold	1977 Gothenburg	Heavy
gold	1978 Mexico City	Heavy
gold	1979 San Diego	Heavy
European Championship
gold	1973 Helsinki	Heavy
silver	1974 Madrid	Heavy
gold	1975 Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Heavy
gold	1976 Leningrad	Heavy
gold	1977 Bursa	Heavy
gold	1978 Oslo	Heavy
gold	1979 Bucharest	Heavy
bronze	1984 Jönköping	{{{24}}}

Nikolai Fjodorowitsch Balboschin ( Russian: Николай Фёдорович Балбошин ; born June 8, 1949 in Potsdam ) is a former Soviet wrestler . He became Olympic champion and multiple world and European champion

Career

Nikolai Balboschin, who was born in this city as the son of a Red Army soldier stationed in Potsdam, grew up in Moscow , where his father had been transferred back. He began wrestling as a teenager at the age of 13 with his brother, focusing on the Greco-Roman style. In 1967 he was Soviet junior heavyweight champion. In 1968 he was drafted into the troops of the Interior Ministry and therefore became a member of Dynamo Moscow . There he was looked after and promoted mainly by Anatoli Parfenow , the 1956 Olympic heavyweight champion. Yuri Kolupov was later added as a trainer.

In 1969 Nikolai Balboschin won the Soviet "Dinamo" heavyweight championship and in 1971 he was the first Soviet champion in this weight class. At the beginning of the 1970s he had already been accepted into the Soviet national team in wrestling Greco-Roman style. In 1971 he won a bronze medal at the Soviet heavyweight championship. At the international tournament in honor of the former Russian wrestler Iwan Poddubny in Minsk in 1972 , he defeated the Olympic and multiple world champion Nikolai Jakowenko in the heavyweight division and thus established himself among the best in the world. In 1973 he was the first Soviet heavyweight champion. In total, he won this title five times.

Success after success followed until 1980. Interrupted a few times by serious injuries that made some breaks from competitions necessary. At the World Wrestling Championships in 1975 he was the only Soviet wrestler not to win a medal in the Greco-Roman style. For this he became Olympic champion in 1976 as well as multiple world and European champions. At the 1980 Olympic Games in his hometown of Moscow, he wanted to end his glamorous career with a second Olympic victory. But just in this tournament he injured his Achilles tendon in his second fight and had to give up. Nikolai Balboschin also won several times at the Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Aschaffenburg and always showed excellent fights.

In 1984 he became the Soviet heavyweight champion for the fifth time and had plans to compete in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles that year. However, the boycott of these games by the Soviet Union prevented this project. In March 1984 he won a bronze medal at the European Championships in Jönköping after a loss to Tamás Gáspár. That was his last medal win at an international FILA championship. At the so-called "International Friendship Games" in 1984, which were organized by the socialist states in Budapest as a substitute for not taking part in the Olympic Games, he took second place behind Tamás Gáspár.

Nukioau Balboschin was initially a driver by profession and trained to become a sports teacher. He then became a coach at Dynamo Moscow at the side of his former coach Nikolai Parfenow. In the 1990s he was often a supervisor of the Russian national team in Greco-Roman. Style seen. In September 2006 he was inducted into the FILA International Wrestling Hall of Fame for his services to wrestling .

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class	Results
1969	1.	Intern. Junior tournament in Minsk	Heavy	before Mondea, Romania and Bohndorf, GDR
1972	1.	"Ivan Poddubny Memorial" in Minsk	Heavy	before Ewgeni Artjuchin , USSR and Nikolai Jakowenko , USSR
1972	2.	Inter. Romanian Championships in Bucharest	Heavy	behind Nicolae Martinescu , Romania, in front of Ewgeni Artjuchin, USSR
1973	1.	Klippan tournament	Heavy	before Lorenz Hecher , FRG a. Ignatov, USSR
1973	1.	EM in Helsinki	Heavy	with victories over Lorenz Hecher , Nicolae Martinescu , Markku Virtanen, Finland and Andrzej Skrzydlewski , Poland
1973	1.	World Cup in Tehran	Heavy	with victories over Gürbüz Lü, Turkey , Ferenc Kiss , Hungary , Yasunari Akiyama, Japan , Kamen Losanow Goranow , Bulgaria and Andrzej Skrzydlewski
1973	1.	"Dynamo" Spartakiade in Berlin (East)	Heavy	before Nicolae Martinescu u. Meißner, GDR
1974	1.	Klippan tournament	Heavy	before Zolow, Bulgaria, Fredi Albrecht , GDR a. Kamen Losanow Goranow, Bulgaria
1974	2.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Leningrad	Heavy	behind Satwerniak, USSR a . before Merkulow, USSR
1974	2.	EM in Madrid	Heavy	with victories over Aslan Aslan, Turkey, Fredi Albrecht , Karl Bachmann, Switzerland , Prvoslav Ilic, Yugoslavia , Andrzej Skrzydlewski and one defeat against Kamen Losanow Goranow
1974	1.	World Cup in Katowice	Heavy	with victories over Virtanen, József Farkas , Hungary , Zdenek Chara, CSSR , Bill Galer, USA , Kenan Ege, Turkey, Kamen Losanow Goranow and Nicolae Martinescu
1974	1.	Championship of the armies of the Warsaw Pact (SKDA-Meist.) In Bucharest	Heavy	in front of Csatari, Romania a. Baianmunkh, Mongolia
1975	1.	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	Heavy	with victories over Raymond Schummer, Luxemburg , József Farkas, Heinz Schäfer , FRG, Fredi Albrecht and Nicolae Martinescu
1975	4th	World Cup in Minsk	Heavy	with victories over Brad Rheingans , USA, Zdenek Chara and Nicolae Martinescu and defeats against Kamen Losanow Goranow and Andrzej Skrzydlewski
1976	1.	EM in Leningrad	Heavy	with victories over Sven Erik Studsgaard, Denmark , Sinan Öczeli, Turkey, Tore Hem , Norway , Kamen Losanow Goranow, József Farkas, Nicolae Martinescu and Andrzej Skrzydlewski
1976	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Heavy	before Nicolae Martinescu , Heinz Schäfer, Albert Niederberger, bde. FRG, Andrzej Skrzydlewski u. Refik Memišević , Yugoslavia
1976	gold	OS in Montreal	Heavy	with victories over Brad Rheingans , József Farkas, Nicolae Martinescu , Andrzej Skrzydlewski and Kamen Losanow Goranow
1977	1.	EM in Bursa	Heavy	with victories over Ivan Savin , Romania, Georgi Rajkow , Bulgaria, József Farkas and Andrzej Skrzydlewski
1977	1.	World Cup in Gothenburg	Heavy	with victories over Zdenek Chara, Jeff Simons, USA, Ivan Savin, Andrzej Skrzydlewski and Refik Memišević
1978	1.	EM in Oslo	Heavy	with victories over Roman Bierła , Poland, Virtanen, Ivan Savin, Refik Memišević, József Farkas and Georgi Rajkow
1978	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Heavy	before Ivan Savin, Hans-Günter Klein a . Heinz Schäfer, both FRG a. Refik Memišević
1978	1.	World Cup in Mexico City	Heavy	with victories over Brad Rheingans , Ivan Savin, József Farkas, Georgi Rajkow and Refik Memišević
1979	1.	Klippan tournament	Heavy	before Roman Bierła, J. Svensson, Sweden, Roger Öberg , Sweden a. Studsgaard, Denmark
1979	1.	EM in Bucharest	Heavy	with victories over Refik Memišević, Andrej Dimitrov , Bulgaria, Tamás Gáspár , Hungary, Roman Bierła and Vasile Andrei, Romania
1979	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Heavy	before Andrej Dimitrow, Bulgaria, Vasile Andrei , J. Svensson, Sweden a. Hans-Günter Klein
1979	1.	World Cup in San Diego	Heavy	with victories over Refik Memišević, Yashi Fujimori, Japan, Georgios Pikilidis , Greece , Vasile Andrei, Brad Rheingans and Georgi Rajkow
1979	2.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Leipzig	Heavy	behind Valentin Mizgaitis, USSR, in front of Hans-Günter Klein, Bogdan Dąbrowski , Poland a. Tamás Gáspár
1980	1.	Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg	Heavy	before Roman Bierła, Vasile Andrei, Georgi Rajkow, Bulgaria, József Farkas, Hungary a. Hans-Günter Klein
1980	unpl.	OS in Moscow	Heavy	with victory over Tamás Gáspár , then retirement due to injury
1984	3.	EM in Jönköping	Heavy	after victories over Hans Lüthi, Switzerland and Fritz Gerdsmeier, Germany, a defeat against Tamás Gáspár and victories over Karl Gustavsson, Sweden and Vasile Andrei
1984	2.	Intern. Friendship games in Budapest	Heavy	behind Tamás Gáspár, in front of Roman Wroclawski, Poland

Russian championships

year	space	Weight class	Results
1971	3.	Heavy	behind Alexej Karmazkich and Wassili Merkulew
1973	1.	Heavy	before Mikhail Saladze and Vladimir Rakayev
1975	2.	Heavy	behind Vasily Merkulow, in front of J. Otison
1977	1.	Heavy	before Mikhail Saladze and Ismail Yekutich
1980	1.	Heavy	before Mikhail Saladze and Nikolai Wabiashvili
1983	1.	Heavy	before Vyacheslav Klimenko and Sergei Golubovich
1984	1.	Heavy	before Viktor Avdischew and Vyacheslav Klimenko

Explanations

• all competitions in Greco-Roman style
• OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship
• Heavy weight, then up to 100 kg body weight

literature

• various issues of the specialist magazine Athletik from 1970 to 1976 and the specialist magazine "Der Ringer" from 1977 to 1980
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships 1896 to 1976, 1976

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Nine New Members Inducted into the FILA Hall of Fame ( Memento of the original from July 3, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed on July 12, 2010 

Web links

• Nikolai Balboschin in the wrestling database of the University of Leipzig
• Nikolai Balboschin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Portrait of Nikolai Balboschin on the website of the Russian Wrestling Federation