Roman Mikhailovich Dmitriev

Roman Michailowitsch Dmitrijew ( Russian Роман Михайлович Дмитриев , scientific transliteration Roman Michajlovič Dmitriev ; born March 7, 1949 in Bestjach, Yakutian ASSR (now the Republic of Sakha ); † February 11, 2010 in Moscow ) was a Soviet wrestler . He was Olympic champion in 1972 and world champion in free style in paper weight (also light flyweight).

Career

Roman Dmitriev, a Yakut, began wrestling as a teenager in 1961. He joined the army at the age of 18 and was stationed in Moscow . There he became a member of the central sports club of the CSKA Moscow Army . His coaches were Dmitri Gorkin and Sergei Preobrazhensky. Roman Dmitrijew was only 1.53 meters tall and, with a few exceptions, always competed in the lightest weight class, paper weight (up to 48 kg body weight), which was introduced by the international wrestling federation FILA in 1969.

At the age of 20, he was used at the 1969 World Championships in Mar del Plata , Argentina , where a competition in the 48 kg class was held for the first time. He won there over Dale Kestel, USA , Jemran Bazarragcha, Mongolia and Akihiko Umeda , Japan . In the decisive fight he was defeated by the Iranian Ibrahim Javadi and became vice world champion . The first victory in a major international championship was achieved by Roman Dmitriev at the European Championship in 1969, which took place this year after the World Cup in Sofia . On the way to the European Championship he defeated u. a. Ognjan Nikolow from Bulgaria , Sefer Baygin from Turkey and fought against Jürgen Möbius from the GDR in a draw. After the European Championships in 1969, Roman Dmitrijew only returned to the European Championships in 1981. The reason for this was that there were a number of excellent paper weight wrestlers in the former Soviet Union , for whom the Soviet Wrestling Association also wanted to open up opportunities to start at international championships. These were z. B. Rafik Gadschiew , Arshak Sanojan , Sergei Kornilajew and Anatoli Beloglasow .

At the 1970 World Cup in Edmonton , he reached 3rd place. He lost it against Akihiko Umeda and again against Ibrahim Javadi. At the World Cup in Sofia in 1971 , Roman Dmitrijew scored three points over Ion Arapu , Romania , Jürgen Möbius and Ognjan Nikolow. Since he was already burdened with 3 missing points, he was eliminated after a narrow point defeat against Akihiko Umeda and only came in 5th place.

At the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich , Roman Dmitrijew had the big hit, because he became Olympic champion . He was of course very lucky, because Ognjan Nikolow , Ebrahim Javadpour from Iran and he defeated each other. After the 6th round only these three wrestlers were in the competition, but they had already wrestled against each other. For this reason, the number of missing points had to decide. Here Roman Dmitrijew was the best with 5 missing points. Nikolow had 6 missing points and Javadpour 7.5 missing points. Roman Dmitrijew was lucky enough to have a bye in the 4th round and thus the advantage of not being able to be burdened with missing points in this round. He won the gold medal in front of Ognjan Nikolow and Ebrahim Javadpour.

In 1973 he confirmed his Olympic victory , because he was also world champion in paper weight with six wins in Tehran . In the decisive battles he defeated Ochirdolgor Enkhtaivan from Mongolia a . Hasan Isajew from Bulgaria.

In the following years he won no more titles, but still achieved excellent placements. In 1974 he won a bronze medal at the World Championships with 3rd place in Istanbul . He had to be here u. a. also defeated the Japanese Yūji Takada , who was to celebrate great success in the following years. In 1975 Roman Dmitriev missed the World and European Championships due to injury. At the 1976 Olympic Games in Montreal he was back at the start and won the silver medal in paper weight . In the fight for the medal, he first defeated the Bulgarian Hasan Isajew . Then he met the Japanese Akira Kudo . In this fight, both wrestlers tacted and were both promptly disqualified by the judges. As a result, they were both burdened with 4 missing points. Hasan Isajew benefited from this decision, as it made him Olympic champion ahead of Roman Dmitrijew and Akira Kudo.

After 1976 Roman Dmitrijew did not start at international championships for the time being. However, he finished 2nd at the World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) in 1977, 1st place in 1979 and 2nd place in 1980, thus proving that he still belongs to the world's elite. In 1978 and 1979 he took second place at the Soviet paperweight championship behind Sergei Kornilajew and won the 1979 People's Partakiade in front of Arshak Sanojan.

At the end of his career, Roman Dmitrijew finally fought his way to the paperweight championship in Łódź behind Ali Mechmedow from Bulgaria a. Claudio Pollio from Italy and ahead of Gerald Pfister , GDR , and Wladiyslaw Olejnik from Poland a bronze medal.

After his playing days, Roman Dmitrijew worked as a wrestling trainer. As a Yakut, together with Pawel Pinigin , another former Yakut world class wrestler, he supported the young people involved in sports in the Russian republic of Sakha (fr. Yakutia). In particular, he made sure that many Yakuts living in the “Russian Diaspora” did not lose touch with their homeland.

International success

(OS = Olympic Games, WM = World Championship, EM = European Championship, F = free style, Pa = paper weight, Fl = fly weight, at that time up to 48 kg or 52 kg body weight)

• 1969, 1st place , Spartakiade of the friendly armies of the Warsaw Pact in Kiev , F, Fl;
• 1969, 2nd place , World Championship in Mar del Plata , F, Pa, with victories over Dale Kestel, USA , Jemran Bararragcha, Mongolia a . Akihiko Umeda , Japan a . a loss to Ibrahim Javadi , Iran ;
• 1969, 1st place , EM in Sofia , F, Pa, with victories over Iancu Vanhelici, Romania , Ognjan Nikolow , Bulgaria , Marcel Micek, CSSR a . Sefer Baygin, Turkey and a tie against Jürgen Möbius , GDR ;
• 1970, 3rd place , World Championships in Edmonton , F, Pa, with victories over Robert Orta, USA, Dojodovyn Ganbat, Mongolia a. Jürgen Möbius u. Defeats against Akihiko Umeda u. Ibrahim Javadi;
• 1971, 1st place , People's Partakiade of the USSR, F, Pa, before Rafik Gadschiew a . Kuliyev, bde, USSR;
• 1971, 5th place , World Championships in Sofia , F, Pa, with victories over Aon Arapu, Romania, Jürgen Möbius u. Ognjan Nikolow u. a loss to Akihiko Umeda;
• 1972, gold medal , OS in Munich , F, Pa, with victories over Adkar Maruti, India , Akihiko Umeda and Ognjan Nikolow and despite a defeat against Ebrahim Javadpour , Iran;
• 1973, 1st place , World Cup in Tehran , F, Pa, with victories over Julian Navarette, Spain , Akira Kudo , Japan, Inder Singh, India , Tan Tak Rion, North Korea , Ochirdolgor Enkhtaivan, Mongolia and others. Hasan Isajew , Bulgaria;
• 1974, 3rd place , World Cup in Istanbul , F, Fl, with victories over Aliashgar Eslami, Iran a. John Kinsella, Australia a . Losses against Ali Rıza Alan , Turkey a. Yūji Takada , Japan;
• 1975, 1st place , "Aryamehr" Cup in Tehran, F, Pa, before Fatahi a. Khadem, bde, Iran;
• 1976, 1st place , "Georgian Cup" in Tbilisi , F, Pa, ahead of Sotchane, Iran a. Lchaishaw, Mongolia;
• 1977, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio) , F, Fl, behind Shimizu Kiyoto, Japan u. before Jim Haines , USA a. Albert Tschirhart, Canada ;
• 1979, 1st place z, Völkerspartakiade of the USSR, F, Pa, in front of Arshak Sanojan a . Didorow, bde. USSR;
• 1979, 1st place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio), F, Pa, in front of Bill Rosado , USA, Eloy Abreu , Cuba a . Noor el Din Mouchfa, Egypt ;
• 1980, 2nd place , World Cup in Toledo (Ohio), F, Pa, behind Robert Weaver , USA a. before Shinichi Ishikawa, Japan a. Ron Moncour, Canada;
• 1981, 3rd place , EM in Łódź , F, Pa, behind Ali Mechmedow , Bulgaria a. Claudio Pollio , Italy a . before Gerald Pfister , GDR a . Wladyslaw Olejnik , Poland

swell

• Trade journal Athletik, numbers 3/1969, 4/1969, 10 / 1969,9 / 1970, 9/1971, 7/8/1972, 10/1973, 10/1974, 4/1975, 4/1976, 10/1976, 8/9/1976, 11/1977, 12/1978, 19/1980 u. 6/81,
• Documentation of FILA's International Wrestling Championships, 1976,
• International Wrestling Database of the Institute for Applied Training Sciences at the University of Leipzig,
• Rep. Sakha website

Web link

Profile of Roman Dmitrijew at the Institute for Applied Training Science