René Chesneau

René Chesneau (born September 17, 1919 in Neuilly-sur-Seine , † October 25, 2006 in Mougins ) was a French wrestler . He was a two-time Olympian.

Career

Disabled by the Second World War , the wrestling career of René Chesneau, who belonged to a wrestling club in Paris , only began after the Second World War, when he was almost 30 years old. He wrestled in both styles, but had his greatest successes on the international Greco-Roman style wrestling mat. He won his first French championship title in 1948 in Greco-Roman. Welterweight style. In total, he won ten French championship titles, the last in 1957 in Greco-Roman. Middleweight style when he was 39 years old.

In 1946 René Chesnau took part in the first international championship that took place after the Second World War, the European Free Style Championship in Stockholm . He lost it in the welterweight division against two wrestlers who played a strong role at European Championships until 1939, Kalman Sovari from Hungary and Yaşar Doğu from Turkey, and finished in 7th place.

The best placement in an international championship in his entire career, he then achieved at the 1948 Olympic Games in London . With two wins and two defeats, he finished 4th in the welterweight division in the Greco-Roman style. He received the defeats from Miklós Szilvási from Hungary and Gösta Andersson from Sweden , who won the gold and silver medals at these games.

René Chesneau also excelled at the 1952 Olympic Games in Helsinki . Here he came in the welterweight division in Greco-Roman. Style to an excellent 5th place. He had the misfortune that he "only" won points against Gottfried Angelberger from Austria and Mahmoud Osman from Egypt , because he was eliminated after the defeat against Kalil Taha from Lebanon because he had scored five missing points. With a shoulder win instead of a point win, he would have landed in the medal ranks.

René Chesneau competed in six other international championships between 1949 and 1955, but did not get beyond middle places.

After the French championship in 1957, he ended his wrestling career.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, F = free style, Le = lightweight, We = welterweight, then up to 67 kg or 73 kg body weight)

• 1946, 7th place , EM in Stockholm , F, We, after defeats against Kalman Sovari , Hungary a . Yaşar Doğu , Turkey ;
• 1948, 4th place , OS in London , GR, We, with victories over Albert Longarela, Argentina a . Nikolaus Felgen, Luxemburg a . Defeats against Miklós Szilvási , Hungary a . Gösta Andersson , Sweden ;
• 1949, 7th place , EM in Istanbul , F, Le, after defeats against Jan Cools, Belgium a . Servet Meric , Turkey;
• 1950, 10th place , World Cup in Stockholm , GR, We, after defeats against Miklós Szilvási and Gösta Andersson;
• 1951, 7th place , World Cup in Helsinki , F, Le, after defeats against Olle Anderberg , Sweden and Garibaldo Nizzola , Italy ;
• 1952, 2nd place , tournament in St. Gallen , F, We, behind Karl Schaad , Switzerland , in front of Engelbert Grünkranz, FRG;
• 1952, 5th place , OS in Helsinki, GR, We, with victories over Gottfried Angelberger, Austria a . Mahmoud Osman, Egypt a . a loss to Kalil Taha , Lebanon ;
• 1953, 1st place , tournament in Riegelsberg , GR, Wed, in front of Emil Maas and Pirmin Raber, bde. Saarland ;
• 1953, 7th place , World Championship in Naples , GR, We, with victories over Kalil Taha u. Anastasios Moissidis, Greece a . Defeats against Franco Benedetti , Italy a. Marin Belușica , Romania ;
• 1953, 3rd place , tournament in Dudweiler , GR, We, behind Hans Böse , BRD a. Erich Schmidt, Saarland, before Henry Freylinger, Luxemburg a . Franco Benedetti,
• 1954, 8th place , World Championships in Tokyo , F, We, with a victory over J. Monaghan, New Zealand a . Losses against Bekir Büke , Turkey a. Vakhtang Balavadze , Soviet Union ;
• 1955, 16th place , World Cup in Karlsruhe , GR, We, after defeats against Kâzım Ayvaz , Turkey a. Hendrik Stoltz, Netherlands

swell

• Professional journal Athletik , numbers: February 1, 1949 , 8/1950, November 10, 1951 , September 8, 1952 , 12/1953, 12/1954 and October 9, 1955 .
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships , 1976.
• Website "www.fflutte.com

Web links

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

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data on GénéaFrance.com. Retrieved May 29, 2020 .