Roman Bierła

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Roman Bierła

Roman Bierła (born March 21, 1957 in Katowice ) is a former Polish wrestler . He was a silver medalist at the 1980 Moscow Olympics in the Greco-Roman style heavyweight division.

Career

Roman Bierła began wrestling as a teenager in 1971 and became a member of the GKS Katowice sports club . He concentrated entirely on the Greco-Roman style. During his career Stanislaw Turow, Jan Adamszek, Antoni Masternak and Janusz Tracewski were his coaches. Roman Bierla was an electrician by profession. During his wrestling career he did not practice this profession.

His first big success on the international wrestling mat he achieved at the Junior World Championships in 1975 in Chaskowo , where he took 3rd place in the heavyweight division (up to 100 kg body weight at that time). He was even more successful at the Junior World Championships in Las Vegas in 1977 , because there he won the heavyweight world title ahead of Viktor Letow from the Soviet Union and the Hungarian Bodo.

In the seniors he started in 1978 at the European Championships in Oslo , where he just missed a medal with 4th place. He was defeated by the super wrestlers Nikolai Balboschin from the Soviet Union and Georgi Rajkow from Bulgaria , who dominated the wrestling event in this weight class in those years. He also lost to Rajkow at this year's World Cup in Mexico City . He also suffered a defeat from Refik Memišević from Yugoslavia and ended up in 7th place.

At the European Championships in Bucharest in 1979 , Roman Bierła u. a. the German master Hans-Günter Klein and the strong Romanian Vasile Andrei , but Nikolai Balboschin had to admit defeat again. But he became vice European champion and thus celebrated his first major success at an international championship among seniors. At the 1979 World Cup in San Diego , he defeated Tamás Gáspár from Hungary and Refik Memišević, but this time lost to Vasile Andrei. He kept the fight open for a long time against Georgi Rajkow. Both wrestlers received two passivity warnings from the jury. Shortly before the end, Roman Bierła received a third warning, which meant his disqualification defeat. According to expert opinions, which can be read in the specialist magazine Athletik, this was a wrong decision, because in their opinion Rajkow deserved the third warning more than Bierła. Since, as is usually the case in sport, factual decisions are not overturned, Roman Bierła was eliminated and came in 5th place.

At the 1980 European Championships in Prievidza , Roman Bierła u. a. the Soviet starter Mikhail Saladze , but lost again to Georgi Rajkow. In the fight against József Farkas from Hungary he was disqualified along with Farkas for being passive. These results were enough to win the EM bronze medal . Roman Bierła then achieved the greatest success of his career at the 1980 Olympic Games in Moscow by winning the silver medal in the heavyweight division. He defeated there u. a. his old competitors Vasile Andrei and Refik Memišević. In the final battle for the gold medal he faced Georgi Rajkow again and was subject to this again by disqualification with the third passivity warning, whereby Rajkow also had two passivity warnings.

After the Olympic Games in 1980, Roman Bierła began studying sports at the AWF Sports University in Warsaw . In 1981 Roman Bierła, who had a wife of German descent, went to the Federal Republic of Germany with her . He wrestled there for SV Siegfried Hallbergmoos in the German Bundesliga, but had great difficulty finding his way around the completely different system. He also wanted to take on German citizenship in order to continue his international wrestling career. When these efforts dragged on, he returned to Poland in 1983 .

In 1984 he qualified in Poland for the Polish wrestling relay that was to take part in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles . Due to the boycott of these games by the socialist states, he could not compete there. In 1985 he started at the World Championships in Kolbotn near Oslo , but only reached 6th place there. Even at the European Championships in Athens in 1986 , it was enough for him in the heavyweight division only to this place.

In 1986 Roman Bierła got a tough competitor in Poland in Andrzej Wroński , whom he could no longer defeat. His international career came to an end after the 1986 European Championship. In the following years he went back to Germany and wrestled there for a few years for KSV Wiesental and AV Reilingen in the Ringer Bundesliga . In 1996 he took over the coaching position at his Polish club GKS Katowice .

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, S = heavyweight, then up to 100 kg body weight)

  • 1978, 2nd place , "Klippan" tournament, GR, S, behind Mikhail Saladze , USSR a. before Thore Hem, Norway ;
  • 1979, 2nd place , "Klippan" tournament, GR, S, behind Nikolai Balboschin u. before Jerker Svensson and Roger Öberg , Sweden;
  • 1979, 5th place , World Championships in San Diego , GR, S, with victories over Tamás Gáspár , Hungary a. Refik Memišević u. Defeats against Vasile Andrei u. Georgi Rajkov;
  • 1980, 2nd place , Grand Prix of the FRG in Aschaffenburg , GR, S, behind Nikolai Balboschin u. before Vasile Andrei, Georgi Rajkow, József Farkas , Hungary a. Hans-Günter Klein, FRG;
  • 1986, 6th place , EM in Athens , GR, S, behind Josef Tertelj, Thomas Horschel, Istvan Illes, Hungary, Dusan Masar u. Anatoly Fedorenko

Polish championships

Roman Bierła was the Polish heavyweight champion in the Greco-Roman style in 1978, 1979, 1983 and 1987.

swell

  • Trade journal Der Ringer , numbers: 8/75, 9/77, 2/78, 5/78, 9/78, 2/79, 5/79, 9/79, 3/80, 5/80, 8/80, 9/86, 4/86 and 5/86
  • Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig

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personal data
SURNAME Bierła, Roman
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Polish wrestler
DATE OF BIRTH March 21, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Katowice