Nikolai Nikolayevich Solovyov

Nikolai Nikolajewitsch Solowjow ( Russian: Николай Николаевич Соловьёв ; born July 27, 1931 in Rodniki , † November 15, 2007 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in 1956 in Melbourne in the Greco-Roman style flyweight.

Career

Nikolai Solovyov's career was short but successful. The Leningrader was a member of the navy and stationed in the Baltic States . By the mid-1950s, he had reached the top of the Soviet flyweights in the Greco-Roman style. He intervened in international competition in 1955 in an international match between the Soviet Union and Sweden . He defeated the Swedish champion Karl-Erik Andersson on points.

In 1956 he was nominated Soviet flyweight champion and for the Olympic Games in Melbourne without having previously played an international championship or any other major international tournament. But he justified the confidence placed in him by the Soviet Wrestling Association, because he became Olympic champion . The decision about the Olympic victory was very dramatic, because the three top wrestlers Nikolai Solowjow, the reigning world champion Ignazio Fabra from Italy and Dursun Ali Egribas from Turkey defeated each other, so that the ratio of fault points from the preliminary fights had to decide and here Nikolai was the best. He was therefore Olympic champion ahead of Ignazio Fabra and Dursun Ali Egribas.

In the further course of his career Nikolai was no longer used in any international championships, although it should be noted that the competition in the Soviet Union was enormous. One outstanding result of Nikolai is still known: in 1959 he was the winner of the Second Spartakiad of the USSR in the flyweight division of Nail Garajew and Armais Sajadow .

International success

• 1956, gold medal , Olympic Games in Melbourne , Greco-Roman. Style, flyweight, with wins over André Zoete , France , Dumitru Pârvulescu , Romania and Ignazio Fabra , Italy and despite a loss to Dursun Ali Egribas , Turkey

International battles

• 1955, USSR against Sweden , GR, Fl, points victory over Karl-Erik Andersson ,
• 1956, France against USSR, GR, Fl, point victory over Tatas,
• 1956, Sweden against USSR, GR, Fl, points victory over Bengt Johansson

swell

• Athletics , trade magazine, various issues from 1954 to 1959.
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976.

Web links

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