Patrice Mourier

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Patrice Mourier (born April 10, 1962 ) is a former French wrestler and world champion in 1987 and European champion in 1990 in Greco-Roman. Style in bantamweight .

Career

Patrice Mourier began as a teenager in Lyon , where he became a member of the local wrestling club (LC) with the wrestling . Under coach Vidal he learned very quickly and developed into an excellent wrestler in Greco-Roman. Style, the style he exclusively wrestled. As a junior he won a bronze flyweight medal at the world championships for juniors (up to the age of 18) in 1980 in Colorado Springs .

After that, however, it took several years until he also fought his way to the top of the world among senior citizens. Although he achieved good placements in several regional international championships and tournaments and came in 9th place at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles in bantamweight, the real breakthrough came in 1987 when he came 3rd in the European bantamweight championship in Tampere Took place and left such good wrestlers as András Sike from Hungary , Sergej Bulanow from the USSR and Haralambos Holidis from Greece behind. Patrice Mourier then caused a bang at the World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand that same year . He was there in superior style to the German champions Rifat Yildiz and European champions Keijo Pehkonen from Finland world champion .

In 1988 he came in 5th place at the European Bantamweight Championships in Kolbotn / Norway . He then started as the reigning world champion at the Olympic Games in Seoul . There he was eliminated after two defeats and could not place in the top ten wrestlers. Its exact placement is unknown.

After a somewhat weaker year in 1989, Patrice Mourier was again very successful in 1990. First he became European bantamweight champion in Poznań in the spring of this year in front of Andras Sike, Rifat Yildiz and the Soviet athlete Sergej Sabiejworota and then he won the bronze medal at the World Championships in Rome in autumn 1990 . 1991 followed a 7th place at the European championship in Aschaffenburg and a good 4th place at the world championship in Varna .

At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , Patrice Mourier tried again to win an Olympic medal. But he dropped out early and only came in 10th place.

Then he ended his international wrestling career. He completed training as a coach and was the coach of the French national wrestling team in Greco-Roman for many years. Style. Now he is active as a high official in the French wrestling federation.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, Fl = flyweight, Ba = bantam weight, back then up to 52 kg or 57 kg body weight)

  • 1982, 5th place , EC championship in Bazel-Kruibeke / Belgium , GR, Ba, behind Julien Mewis, Belgium, Jürgen Lutterer, FRG, Kakopis, Greece and F. Graf, Switzerland ;
  • 1985, 1st place , tournament in Reims , GR, Ba, in front of Krassimir Iliew, Bulgaria a. Calergo Marrow, France ;
  • 1987, 3rd place , EM in Tampere , GR, Ba, behind Keijo Pehkonen , Finland and Emil Radojew, Bulgaria a. before Andras Sike, Sergej Bulanow a. Haralambos Holidis;
  • 1987, 1st place , World Championships in Clermont-Ferrand , GR, Ba, ahead of Rifat Yildiz, Keijo Pehkonen, Anthony Amado, USA, Ronny Sidge , Norway a. Emil Ivanov;
  • 1987, 1st place , FILA-Grand-Prix in Budapest , GR, Ba, in front of Emitl Iwanow, Keijo Pehkonen, Rifat Yildiz u. Anthony Aamado;
  • 1988, 1st place , Grand Prix of CSSR in Prague , GR, Ba, before Rifat Yildiz u. Terho Kettunen, Finland;
  • 1988, 5th place , EM in Kolbotn, GR, Ba, behind Alexander Schestakow , USSR, Stojan Balow, Andras Sike u. Rifat Yildiz et al. before Haralambos Holidis;
  • 1988, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Latakis / Greece, GR, Ba, ahead of Haralambos Holidis, Serhat Karadag u. Antonio Molino, Italy;
  • 1989, 6th place , EM in Oulu , GR, Ba, behind Keijo Pehkonen, Emil Iwanow, Sergej Bulanow, Radu Strubert , Romania a. Zoran Galovic, Yugoslavia;
  • 1990, 1st place , EM in Poznań , GR, Ba, ahead of Andras Sike, Rifat Yildiz, Sergej Sabiejworota , USSR, Pierre Dikanda, Sweden a. Kiril Stefanow, Bulgaria;
  • 1990, 3rd place , World Championship in Rome , GR, Ba, behind Rifat Yildiz u. Alexander Schestakow u. before Michizo Fugioka, Japan, Ahadory Gonzalez, Cuba a. Si Jen-Chui, South Korea;
  • 1991, 7th place , EM in Aschaffenburg , GR, Ba, behind Alexander Ignatenko, Marian Sandu , Romania, Rifat Yildiz, Zoran Galovic, Andras Sike u. Emil Ivanov;
  • 1991, 1st place , Mediterranean Games in Athens , GR, Ba, ahead of Isaac Theodoridis, Greece, Nader Al-Sobei, Syria a . Ergueder Bekisdanrat, Turkey;
  • 1991, 4th place , World Championship in Varna , GR, Ba, behind Rifat Yildiz, Alexander Ignatenko u. Andras Sike et al. before Zoran Galovic u. Michizo Fugioka;
  • 1992, 10th place , OS in Barcelona , GR, Ba, winner: An Bong-Han in front of Rifat Yildiz u. Sheng Zetiang, China

swell

  • 1) Trade journal "Der Ringer", numbers: 10/1980, 5/1984, page 6, 9/1984, page 8, page 7, 3/1985, page 15, 4/1985, pages 10 to 12, 9/1985 , Pages 5/6, 4/1986, page 6, 6/1987, page 6 and Page 9, 9/1987, page 5 and Page 10, 6/1988, Page 6, 9/1988, Page 10, 5/1989, Page 7, 9/1989, Page 6, 5/1990, Page 7, 11/1990, Page 6, 5/1991, Page 10, 10/1991, page 4, 9/1992, page 14,
  • 2) Website of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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