Pavel Christov

Pawel Christow ( Bulgarian Павел Христов ; born February 3, 1951 ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He was a multiple medalist at world and European championships in the Greco-Roman style in paper weight.

Career

Pawel Christow developed in Bulgaria at the beginning of the 1970s into one of the best Bulgarian and later one of the world's best paper weights (weight class up to 48 kg body weight) in the Greco-Roman style. As competitors in Bulgaria he had especially Stefan Angelow and Georgi Georgiev , with whom he had to fight for the starting positions at the international championships.

1973 Pawel Christow started for the first time at an international championship and was at the European championship in Helsinki with victories over Xhelil Cibaku, Albania a . Ferenc Seres , Hungary , and a tie against the 1972 Olympic champion Gheorghe Berceanu from Romania and Vladimir Nezwetajew from the Soviet Union Vice European Champion .

Despite this excellent result, he was only used again at the European Championships in 1975 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein . There he won over Martin Svaty from the CSSR , Dietmar Hinz from the GDR and Ferenc Seres , but lost to Alexei Schumakow from the USSR and Constantin Alexandru from Romania and thereby slipped to 4th place.

In the next few years Pawel Christow competed in some first-class international tournaments, of which he won several, leaving behind such good wrestlers as Wladimir Schatumow , USSR Ryszard Swierad from Poland, Dietmar Hinz , Constantin Alexandru and Totju Andonow , Bulgaria. His next start at an international championship he had again at the European Championships in 1979 in Bucharest . There he defeated the future Olympic champion Vincenzo Maenza from Italy , Jozsef Santha from Hungary, Salih Bora from Turkey and Anatoli Bosin from the USSR. In the final he lost to Constantin Alexandru, but was again vice European champion . In 1979 he also started at the World Championships in San Diego , where he won over Wieslaw Kucinski , Poland, Atsuji Miyahara , Japan a . Greg Williams from the United States. Against Alexei Schumakow and Constantin Alexandru he lost again, but still won a bronze medal at the World Championships.

In 1980 Pawel Christow managed to qualify for the Olympic Games in Moscow . He came there to victories over Kent Andersson from Sweden , Vincenzo Maenza a . Reijo Haaparanta from Finland . In the decisive battles for a medal, however, he lost against Constantin Alexandru and Saksylik Uschkempirow from the USSR and thus just missed a medal with 4th place.

After these Olympic Games Pawel Christow ended his international wrestling career. Nothing is known about his further life.

successes

year	space	competition	Weight class
1972	2.	Gothenburg Cup	paper	behind Alexei Schumakow , USSR , in front of Kauko Naavala, Sweden
1973	1.	Klippan tournament	paper	before Petrow, Bulgaria a . Aslund, Sweden
1973	1.	"Pytlasinski" tournament in Warsaw	paper	before Vladimir Schatumow , USSR a. Constantin Alexandru , Romania
1973	2.	EM in Helsinki	paper	with victories over Xhelil Cibaku, Albania a . Ferenc Seres , Hungary a . Draw against Gheorghe Berceanu , Romania a. Vladimir Nezvetayev, USSR
1973	2.	Grand Prix of the Federal Republic of Germany in Moosburg an der Isar	paper	behind Günter Maas , FRG , in front of Ryszard Swierad , Poland
1975	1.	Klippan tournament	paper	before Wladimir Schatumow and Kalle Tegelberg, Sweden
1975	4th	EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein	paper	with victories over Martin Svaty, CSSR , Dietmar Hinz , GDR a . Ferenc Seres et al. Loses to Alexei Shumakov and Constantin Alexandru
1976	1.	Klippan tournament	paper	before Dietmar Hinz and Wieslaw Kucinski , Poland
1977	3.	Klippan tournament	paper	behind Anatoli Bosin , USSR, in front of Ronny Sidge, Norway and Jürgen Kleer , FRG
1979	1.	Klippan tournament	paper	before Totju Andonow , Bulgaria a. Mansson, Sweden
1979	2.	EM in Bucharest	paper	with victories over Vincenzo Maenza , Italy , Jozsef Santha , Hungary, Salih Bora , Turkey u. Anatoli Bosin et al. a loss to Constantin Alexandru
1979	3.	World Cup in San Diego	paper	with victories over Wieslaw Kucinski, Atsuji Miyahara , Japan and Greg Williams, USA a . Loses to Alexei Shumakov and Constantin Alexandru
1980	4th	OS in Moscow	paper	with victories over Kent Andersson, Sweden, Vincenzo Maenza a . Reijo Haaparanta , Finland a. Defeats against Constantin Alexandru u. Saksylik Ushkempirow , USSR

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, paper weight, at that time up to 48 kg body weight

swell

• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976,
• Trade magazines Athletik and Der Ringer ,
• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

Web links

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