Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaev

Cyrillic ( Russian )
	Олег Николаевич Караваев
Transl. :	Oleg Nikolaevič Karavaev
Transcr. :	Oleg Nikolayevich Karavaev
Cyrillic ( Belarusian )
	Алег Караваеў
Łacinka :	Aleh Karavajeŭ
Transl. :	Aleh Karavaeŭ
Transcr. :	Aleh Karawajeu

Oleg Nikolajewitsch Karawajew (born May 20, 1936 in Minsk , † August 23, 1978 ibid) was a Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in Rome in 1960 .

Career

Oleg Karavaev comes from Belarus and started wrestling as a teenager. As a student he became a member of "Burewestnik" Minsk , where he developed into an excellent wrestler in the Greco-Roman style. From 1956 to 1960 and 1962 he was the Soviet bantamweight champion. 1957 before Konstantin Vyrupajew from Irkutsk and L. Fishman from Kiev . He was then used at the 1958 World Cup in Budapest , where he justified the trust placed in him by winning the world bantamweight title. He needed seven wins and defeated Yasar Yilmaz from Turkey in the final .

In 1959, a year in which there were no world championships in Greco-Roman style, Oleg also won the bantamweight division of the Second Spartakiad of the USSR ahead of Olympic champions Boris Gurevich and Georgi Chichuashvili from Georgia . In 1960 he qualified for the Olympic Games in Rome by winning the Soviet championship ahead of Boris Gurevich and Amari Egadze from Tbilisi . In Rome, Oleg was at his best and became Olympic champion with six wins. Ion Cernea from Romania and Dinko Petrow from Bulgaria were his toughest opponents.

In 1961, Oleg achieved his third major victory in a row by winning the world bantamweight title at the World Championships in Yokohama . After a one-year break, he started again at the 1963 World Cup in Helsingborg . After a draw with Ion Cernea in the fourth round, he was defeated by the Hungarian János Varga in the fifth round and only came in fourth.

At the Soviet championships in 1964, Oleg failed to Wladlen Trostjanski and thus missed the Olympic participation in Tokyo . He then ended his international wrestling career. From 1971 to 1978 he worked as a trainer in Minsk. In 1978 he got into a life crisis and committed suicide on August 23, 1978.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Ba = bantam weight, up to 57 kg body weight)

• 1957, 1st place , III. Intern. Sports games in Moscow , GR, Ba, in front of Dinko Petrow , Bulgaria and Francisc Horvath , Romania ;
• 1958, 1st place , World Cup in Budapest , GR, Ba, with victories over Poul Andersen, Denmark , Imre Hódos , Hungary , Dinko Petrow, Jiří Švec , CSSR , Lothar Fischer , GDR , Ion Cernea , Romania and Yasar Yilmaz , Turkey ;
• 1960, gold medal , OS in Rome , GR, Ba, with victories over Jon Tveiten, Norway , Arthur Spaenhoven, Belgium , Michel Nakouzi, Lebanon , Stipan Dora, Yugoslavia , Masamitsu Ichiguchi , Japan and Ion Cernea;
• 1961, 1st place , World Cup in Yokohama , GR, Ba, with victories over Ion Cernea, János Varga , Hungary and Bernard Knitter , Poland and a draw against Jiří Švec, CSSR;
• 1963, 4th place , World Championship in Helsingborg , GR, Ba, with victories over Kurt Johanesson, Sweden , Heinrich Theuretzbacher, Austria and Robert Salles, France , a draw against Ion Cernea and a defeat against János Varga;
• 1964, 1st place , "Iwan-Podubbny" tournament in Moscow, GR, Ba, ahead of Bernard Knitter and Maltserow, Bulgaria

swell

• various issues of the specialist magazine "Athletik" from 1957 to 1964,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976
• International Wrestling Database of the University of Leipzig

Web links

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