Petar Krumov

Petar Petrow Krumow (born September 18, 1941 in Sofia ) is a former Bulgarian wrestler . He was world champion in 1969 in the Greco-Roman style middleweight division.

Career

Petar Krumow grew up in Sofia and started wrestling there as a teenager. He was very talented and went through the usual promotion in Bulgaria at the time. He focused on the Greco-Roman style. At a height of 1.76 meters, he fought in the middleweight division, which at that time reached up to 87 kg body weight. He was initially in Bulgaria , which had become an enormously strong wrestling nation since around 1950, in the shadow of other athletes, especially Krali Bimbalow .

He earned his first merits in international matches. As early as 1962, he wrestled in two international fights in Bulgaria in Czechoslovakia in the welterweight division against Jiri Loukota and scored a victory over Petr Kukla. In the same year he wrestled on the occasion of an international match Bulgaria against the Federal Republic of Germany in the welterweight division against Werner Hoppe .

In 1964 he took an excellent 3rd place at the renowned "Iwan-Poddubny" tournament in Moscow in the welterweight category behind world champion Anatoli Kolessow from the USSR and Waclaw Dubicki from Poland . For participation in the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , he was not yet able to qualify.

In 1965 he was used for the first time at the World Championships in Tampere, Finland . He had moved up to the middleweight division and won there over Gheorghe Popovici from Romania and wrestled against ex-world champion Tevfik Kış from Turkey , against Petar Cucic from Yugoslavia and against Stig Persson from Sweden . Because of the missing points with which he was burdened with these results, he had to retire after the 4th round and came in 6th place.

At the 1966 World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) , he first won two wins over weaker opponents, he was again a draw against Stig Persson, but he lost to the Soviet wrestler Walentin Olenik and was eliminated just before reaching the final round and placed on the 4th rank.

In 1967 Petar Krumow was not used in any international championships. In 1968 he won the European Middleweight Championship in Västerås with victories over Adam Ostrowski from Poland, Hakon Överby from Norway and László Sillai from Hungary and a draw against Omar Bliadse from the USSR, the European Championship silver medal . At the Olympic Games in Mexico City this year , it initially seemed like he was on the way to medals. He won there namely over Ortiz Hernandes from Guatemala , Hakon Överby and the 1967 world champion László Sillai and fought against the Soviet representative Valentin Olenik in a draw. With a victory in his next fight against Nicolae Neguț from Romania he would have already had a medal. But he lost to Neguț on points, retired and slipped to 5th place.

Petar Krumow was not discouraged by this result and was rewarded as early as 1969 in Mar del Plata with winning the world title in middleweight division. To do this, however, he had to work off 5 kg because after a weight class reform at the beginning of 1969, the mean weight only went up to 82 kg body weight. He won in Mar del Plata over Larry Speers from Canada , Omar Bliadse u. Jimmy Martinetti from Switzerland and fought against Jan Kärström from Sweden . In his last fight he lost against Milan Nenadić from Yugoslavia on points. Nenadić had previously lost to Bliadze, against whom Krumow had won. After these three wrestlers had defeated each other, the fault points from the other fights of these wrestlers decided and there was Petar Krumow as the wrestler with the fewest fault points and was thus world champion .

Petar Krumow was also in good shape at the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton . He won the middleweight division a. a. via Matti Laakso from Finland and Milan Nenadić and only lost to the Soviet wrestler Anatoli Nasarenko in the final , which brought him to second place. In 1971 the World Championships took place in Petar Krumov's hometown in Sofia . But he was no longer there and also at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich.

International success

year	space	competition	Weight class
1964	3.	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	Welter	behind Anatoli Kolessow , USSR a . Waclaw Dubicki , Poland
1965	6th	World Cup in Tampere	medium	with a victory over Gheorghe Popovici , Romania a . Draw against Tevfik Kış , Turkey , Petar Cucic , Yugoslavia u. Stig Persson , Sweden
1966	4th	World Cup in Toledo (Ohio)	medium	with victories over M. Ackermann, South Africa a . Franz Pötsch, Austria , a tie against Stig Persson u. a loss to Valentin Olenik , USSR
1967	4th	"Ivan Poddubny" tournament in Moscow	medium	behind Alexander Jurkewitsch u. Valentin Olenik, both USSR, and Lothar Metz , GDR , before Nikolai Tarasow, USSR a. Branislav Simić , Yugoslavia
1967	3.	Intern. Tournament in Greiz	medium	behind Lothar Metz u. Dieter Heuer , bde. GDR
1968	1.	"Dan Kolew" tournament in Sevlyevo	medium	before Jiří Kormaník , Czechoslovakia a . Nicolae Neguț , Romania
1968	3.	Intern. Tournament in Zella-Mehlis	medium	behind Lothar Metz u. Bertil Nyström , Sweden
1968	2.	EM in Västerås	medium	with victories over Adam Ostrowski , Poland , Hakon Överby , Norway a . László Sillai , Hungary a . a tie against Omar Bliadze , USSR
1968	5.	OS in Mexico City	medium	with victories over Ortiz Hernandez, Guatemala , Hakon Överby u. László Sillai, a draw against Valentin Olenik and a loss against Nicolae Neguț
1969	1.	World Cup in Mar del Plata	medium	with victories over Larry Spears, Canada , Omar Bliadse u. Jimmy Martinetti , Switzerland , a tie against Jan Kärström , Sweden a. despite a loss to Milan Nenadić , Yugoslavia
1970	2.	World Cup in Edmonton	medium	with victories over Ali Yagmur, Turkey , Jay Robinson, USA , Matti Laakso , Finland a . Milan Nenadić and one loss to Anatoli Nasarenko , USSR
1971	3.	"Werner-Seelenbinder" tournament in Berlin (East)	medium	behind Dimitar Mantschorow, Bulgaria a. Nilsson, Sweden

Note: all competitions in the Greco-Roman style, OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, welterweight, then up to 78 kg, middleweight, up to 1968 up to 87 kg and from 1969 up to 82 kg body weight

swell

• Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• Athletics magazine
• Website "www.bul-wrestling.com"

Web links

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