Roman Codreanu

Roman Codreanu

Roman Codreanu (born November 17, 1952 in Zimandu Nou , Arad County , † May 26, 2001 in Arad , Arad County) was a Romanian wrestler .

Career

Roman Codreanu was very difficult even as a teenager. Wrestling was therefore the right sport for him. After his talent was recognized, he was delegated to the Astra Arad sports club . After winning the Romanian super heavyweight championship, he was also used in international competitions and achieved many successes. His body weight at that time was about 145 kg. He achieved his greatest success in 1978 when he became the superior European champion in Oslo and also defeated the multiple Bulgarian world champion Alexandar Tomow . In total, he was eight times Romanian super heavyweight champion. After the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles , he ended his active career because the world association FILA had set the upper limit of the weight class to 130 kg, unattainable for Codreanu.

From the beginning of the 1980s he studied at the Institute for Education and Sport in Bucharest and graduated in 1986 as a certified sports teacher. Codreanu became a trainer in Arad, but had to give up this position in 1998 for health reasons. In order to supplement his pension, he then took over the job of ticket seller at Astra Arad. He died in 2001 at the age of 48 of complications from severe heart disease, leaving behind a wife and two sons.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, GR = Greco-Roman style, SS = super heavyweight)

• 1974, 3rd place , EM in Madrid , GR, SS, with victories over Zygmunt Andrecki, Poland , Karl-Heinz Gerdsmeier , FRG and Jürgen Bohndorf, GDR and defeats against Alexandar Tomow , Bulgaria and Schota Morschiladze , USSR;
• 1974, 5th place , World Championships in Katowice , GR, SS, with victories over Henryk Tomanek, Poland and Ömer Topuz , Turkey and defeats against Alexandar Tomow and János Rovnyai , Hungary ;
• 1975, 5th place , EM in Ludwigshafen am Rhein , GR, SS, with victories over Topuz and Lorenz Hecher , FRG and defeats against Nikola Dinew , Bulgaria and Oleksandr Kolchynskyj , USSR;
• 1975, 3rd place , World Championships in Minsk , GR, SS, with victories over Seji Matsunaga, Japan , Tomanek, Billy Van Wart, USA and defeats against Alexandar Tomow and Oleksandr Kolchynskyj;
• 1976, 6th place , EM in Leningrad , GR, SSm with victory over Arne Robertsson, Sweden and defeats against József Nagy , Hungary and Oleksandr Kolchynskyj;
• 1976, bronze medal , OS in Montreal , GR, SSm with victories over János Rovnyai, Richard Wolff , FRG, Robertsson and William Lee, USA and defeats to Alexandar Tomow and Oleksandr Kolchynskyj;
• 1978, 1st place , EM in Oslo , GR, SS, with victories over Andrecki, Alexandar Tomow, Awtandil Maisuradse , USSR and József Nagy;
• 1978, 3rd place , World Cup in Mexico City , GR, SS with victories over János Rovnyai, Tomanek, Gunder Gundersen, Norway and defeats against Prvoslav Ilic, Yugoslavia and Dinew (in both fights both wrestlers were disqualified because of passivity and received 4 Penalty points);
• 1979, 2nd place , EM in Bucharest , GR, SS, with victories over Antonio Lapenna, Italy , Ilic, Kenan Ege, Turkey and one defeat against Tomanek (both disqualified);
• 1979, 10th place , World Championships in San Diego , GR, SS, after defeats against Ilic and Alexandar Tomow;
• 1980, 4th place , EM in Prievidza , GR, SS, with victory over Lapenna and defeats against Ilic and Dinew (both wrestlers disqualified);
• 1980, 5th place , OS in Moscow , Gr, SS, with victory over Marek Galiński , Poland and defeat against Oleksandr Kolchynskyj and Alexandar Tomow;
• 1983, 4th place , EM in Budapest , GR, SS, behind Dinew, József Nagy, Jewgeni Artjuchin, USSR and in front of Ilic and Lapenna

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Virtual Arad, May 31, 2001 , accessed January 9, 2011 (Romanian)

Web links

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